- Born in Harlem, New York, and raised in Libertyville, Illinois, Morello became interested in music and politics while in high school.
- Morello co-founded Axis of Justice, which airs a monthly program on Pacifica Radio station KPFK (90.7 FM) in Los Angeles.
- He is best known for his tenure with the rock band Rage Against the Machine and with the rock band Audioslave.
- He was ranked number 40 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists".
- Thomas Baptist Morello is his birth name.
- His mother was a schoolteacher from Marseilles, Illinois, who earned a Master of Arts at Loyola University, Chicago and traveled to Germany, Spain, Japan, and Kenya as an English language teacher between 1977 and 1983.
- His father participated in the Mau Mau Uprising (1952–1960) and was Kenya's first ambassador to the United Nations.

Tom Morello Trivia
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