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To celebrate the release of his new solo rock album “Everyone Gets Everything They Want”, which arrived on Friday, September 25, Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Tom Morello appeared as the featured musical guest on the September 29 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, as per theprp. Joined on stage by his son Roman, the Rage Against the Machine guitarist delivered a live performance of “Soldier In The Army Of Love,” which is now available to stream online.
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Tom Morello was born on May 30, 1964, in Harlem, New York City, as the only child of Mary Morello and Ngethe Njoroge. His mother, an educator of Italian and Irish descent from Marseilles, Illinois, earned a Master of Arts at Loyola University, Chicago, and taught English abroad across Germany, Spain, Japan, and Kenya between 1977 and 1983. His parents originally met in August 1963 during a pro-democracy protest in Nairobi, Kenya, before marrying in New York City later that year.
Morello’s father, who participated in the Mau Mau Uprising from 1952 to 1960, went on to serve as Kenya’s first ambassador to the United Nations. The guitarist comes from a prominent Kenyan political lineage: his paternal great-uncle, Jomo Kenyatta, became Kenya’s first elected president, while his aunt, Jemimah Gecaga, was the first female member of the Kenyan legislature. Furthermore, his uncle Njoroge Mungai served as a Kenyan Cabinet Minister and Member of Parliament, recognized as one of the founding fathers of modern Kenya.
