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Tommy Sands (born August 27, 1937 ) is an United
States|American pop music singer and actor.

Born Thomas Adrian Sands into a musical family in
Chicago, Illinois, his father was a piano|pianist
and his mother a big band|big-band singer. While
still young, he moved with his family to
Shreveport, Louisiana. Sands began playing the
guitar at age seven and within a year had a job
performing twice weekly on a local radio station.
He was only fifteen when Colonel Tom Parker heard
about him and signed him to RCA Records. His
initial recordings garnered little in the way of
sales but in early 1957 he was given the
opportunity to star in an episode of "Kraft
Television Theatre". On the show, his song
presentation of a Joe Allison composition called
"Teenage Crush" went over big with the young
audience and, released as a Single (music)|45 rpm
single by Capitol Records, it went to No.3 on the
Billboard Hot 100 music charts.

Sands' sudden fame brought an offer to sing at the
Academy Awards show and his teen idol looks landed
him a motion-picture contract to star in a 1958
musical drama called Sing, Boy, Sing. In 1960, he
married Nancy Sinatra and for a time they were the
toast of Hollywood. Sands performed in several
films including Babes in Toyland (1961
movie)|Babes in Toyland in 1961 and The Longest
Day (movie)|The Longest Day in 1962 but both his
singing and film career had faded by the 1970s.

He was divorced from Sinatra in 1965 and has a
daughter, model Jessica Sands, born in 1977 from
another relationship.