Tom Shaka

{{short description|American blues singer–songwriter}}

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Tom Shaka (April 9, 1953, Middletown, Connecticut) is an American blues singer–songwriter.{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AASB&p_theme=aasb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAD8963CF8DF334&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=On the town|last=Blackstock|first=Peter|date=April 17, 1989|work=Austin American-Statesman|page=A10|accessdate=28 July 2011}}

In the 1970s he moved to Europe, and played in the Hamburg jazz club 'Onkel Pö', with musicians such as Udo Lindenberg, Louisiana Red, David Honeyboy Edwards, Abi Wallenstein and Al Jarreau. At the present time Shaka lives and works in the northwest German town Norderstedt, inside the Hamburg Metropolitan Region.