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Name: Tom Marin
Age: 68
Gender: Male
Occupation: Semi-retired owner of Gold City Records
Powers: Electricity
Hobbies: Music, music production, cooking, helping young people with powers, spending time with his family
Musical Tastes: Folk rock, alternative/indie rock
Appearance: Longer curly gray/white hair and a large beard, wears blue jeans and earth tones, stands at 6'1, tanned face and a scarred body.
Strengths and Weaknesses: His strengths are his passion and his willingness to help others. His weaknesses are a somewhat cynical view of the world and his aging body and mind.
Bio: Tom was born in the Irish Hills district of Esperanza to an Italian working class family. His grandfather being a classical mandolinist, and his mother playing piano, music was very important in his house growing up, and starting playing music from a young age. In his teens he became involved with the mostly middle class Esperanza hippie scene, and formed the band 'The Jipsees', which became dominant in the Esperanza folk rock scene and popular throughout California. During this time, he also married his first wife, Daisy. In 1971 they released a song called 'Mr. Nixon', and almost immediately Frank was drafted and sent to the front lines in Vietnam.

He was captured by the North Vietnamese and sent to a special POW camp run by a Chinese doctor, Dr. Wang Niao, who performed CRT tests on him for the next two years, giving him powers over electricity, until the end of the war in 1973. For the next two years, he was reclusive and didn't do much, becoming distant from his wife who divorced him in '74, but in 1975 he released his first and only solo album, [i]Lightning[/i], which, while at the time was met with low sales and mixed reviews, later being extremely critically acclaimed and influential. He decided to retire from making music after his album's released, and opened up a record store below his apartment, Gold City Records. In 1981, he got remarried to his current wife, a talent scout, Alison Cohen.

When the nineties came, a new wave of rock in Esperanza came with it, a combination of lo-fi, alternative rock, punk, and indie. While they were touring and people knew about them, none of the local labels wanted to sign them or record any of them, and the only recordings of them were on homemade cassettes. Tom heard some of these cassettes, and after hearing they were all unsigned, decided to expand Gold City Records to also be a record label and recording studio, which he co-owned with his wife. The label become somewhat legendary, and an icon of music in Esperanza, but indie and alternative rock became less popular further into the 2000's, and while Alison and Tom still own GCR, most of the responsibility is in the hands of his son and other employees.
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