Thomas Wayne Perkins (July 22, 1940 – August 15, 1971)[1] was an American singer.
Wayne was the brother of Johnny Cash's guitarist, Luther Perkins.
[2] He released several singles between 1958 and 1964, primarily on the labels Fernwood and Mercury, including "This Time", which would later become a hit for Troy Shondell.
He scored a major U.S. hit with the song "Tragedy" (credited to Thomas Wayne with the DeLons), which peaked at #20 on the R&B Singles chart and #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1959.
Later, Wayne worked as a sound engineer, before he died in a car accident, at the age of 31, in Memphis in 1971.