| Name |
Tomo Milicevic |
| Height |
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| Naionality |
American |
| Date of Birth |
3-September-1979 |
| Place of Birth |
Sarajevo, Bosnia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Famous for |
singing |
Tomislav "Tomo" Milicevic is an American musician. He is the lead guitarist of the alternative rock band 30 Seconds to Mars.
Tomo practiced to become a concert violinist from the ages of 3 to 19 years of age. He started writing his own music by the age of 17. After discovering heavy metal, Tomo told his father that he wanted to play the guitar, and so they made one together. The guitar was used to record the song "A Modern Myth" on 30 Seconds to Mars's second album, A Beautiful Lie.
He says that the first concert he attended was Nirvana but he has since said in interviews that is "truthfully not true...I think it was Paula Abdul and Living Colour".
After graduating from culinary school as an executive and pastry chef, Tomo decided to sell all of his instruments and leave the music business. But then he was told about an audition for 30 Seconds to Mars by Shannon Leto. Being that Tomo was already a fan of the group, he decided to audition. He was selected from 200 musicians not only for his talent, but also because he is kind and personable. Five days later, on February 3, 2003, he played with Jared Leto, Shannon Leto and Matt Wachter on The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn.
The band released their third album This Is War, on December 4, 2009.
Milicevic played for a time with a local band from Michigan, called Morphic.
Milicevic describes his music as rock, and his influences include Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Metallica at the time of Kill 'Em All, The Who, Alice in Chains and Slayer.
