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There Are Several Artists Who Go By Pat Thomas 1 Pat Thomas Born As Kwabena Nyamekye Amoo-Mensah In Agona Ashanti Region Ghana In 1951 Is A Ghanaian Highlife Singer Songwriter And Musician.
Thomas Early Inspiration To Become A Singer Was A Vocalist Joss Aikins. Thomas Started His Musical Career In 1960s When He Collaborated With Ebo Taylor. In 1974 He Formed The Band Sweet Beans And With Them He Recorded His First Album False Lover. He Recorded His Second Album Pat Thomas Introduces Marijata With The Band Marijata. After The Coup In Ghana In 1979 He Relocated To Berlin And Later Settled In Canada. He Is Now Touring Worldwide With His Kwashibu Area Band. In June 2015 They Released The Album Pat Thomas And Kwashibu Area Band To Mark 50 Years Of His Musical Career. Thomas Is Known As “The Golden Voice Of Africa”. 2 Born 27 July 1960 Piano Electronics.
Pat Thomas Started Playing At The Age Of 8 And Studied Classical Music And Played Reggae. He Began Playing Jazz At Sixteen After Seeing Oscar Peterson On Television Then Listened To Snatches Of Jazz On The Radio Before In 1979 Playing His First Serious Improvised Gigs. From 1986 He Played With Ghosts Which Was Pete McPhail And Matt Lewis. In Addition To Programming His Keyboards Pat Thomas Also Utilises Prerecorded Tapes. He Told Chris Blackford 1991 'As Far As The Tapes Are Concerned I'll Probably Just Sit In Front Of The TV And Tape Whatever's Going On And So Some Editing Afterward To Decide What Might Be Useful. ...But I Don't Actually Put A Label On Each Tape Saying What's On There So When I Come To Use Them I Don't Know What I'm Going To Be Playing. That Obviously Prevents Me From Setting Things Up. I Pick Them At Random And See What Happens. So I'm Just As Surprised As Anybody Else At What Comes Out'. In 1988 He Was Awarded An Arts Council Jazz Bursary To Write Three New Electroacoustic Compositions For His Ten-Piece Ensemble Monads Roger Turner And Matt Lewis Percussion Pete McPhail WX7 Wind Synthesizer Neil Palmer Turntables Phil Minton Voice Phil Durrant Violin Marcio Mattos Bass Jon Corbett Trumpet Geoff Searle Drum Machines. The Intention Was To Feature Different Aspects Of Electronics Using Improvisation So For Example One Piece - Dialogue - Featured Pete McPhail And Neil Palmer Another Concentrated On The Interaction Of Percussionists And Drum Machines And A Third Piece Had Phil Minton And Jon Corbett Improvising With A Computer. The Pieces Were Performed At The Crawley Outside-In Festival Of New Music In 1989. Pat Thomas Was Invited By Derek Bailey To Play In Company Week In 1990 And 1991 And He Also Took Part In The Ist International Symposium For Free Improvisation In Bremen With The Guitarist. He Has Been A Member Of The Tony Oxley Quartet Documented On Incus CD 15 And Played In Oxley's Angular Apron Along With Larry Stabbins Manfred Schoof And Sirone At The 8th Ruhr Jazz Meeting And In The Percussionist's Celebration Orchestra. He Plays With Lol Coxhill In A Range Of Combinations From Duo To Being A Member Of 'Before My Time' Is A Member Of Mike Cooper's Continental Drift And He Has A Well Established Duo With Percussionist Mark Sanders And A Trio With Steve Beresford And Francine Luce. In 1992 Pat Thomas Formed The Quartet Scatter With Phil Minton Roger Turner And Dave Tucker Funded By The Arts Council They Toured The UK In 1993 And Again At The Beginning Of 1997. On The 'Festival Circuit' Pat Thomas Has Appeared At The Young Improvisors Festival At The Korzo Theatre Den Haag With Jim O'Rourke Mats Gustafsson And Alexander Frangenheim Angelica 95 In Bologna Italy The Stuttgart 5th Festival Of Improvised Music 96 With Fred Frith Shelly Hirsch Carlos Zingaro And Others And The 3rd International Festival 96 In Budapest With Evan Parker Phil Minton John Russell And Roger Turner . 3 Mostly Know For Being The Drummer Of Rochester NY Alternative Rock Band Http //www.Last.Fm/music/absolute Grey Pat Also Had A Folk Rock Solo Project And Started The Heyday Record Label. 4 Patricia "Pat" Thomas Was A Jazz Singer Who Recorded Mostly During The 1960's.
Her Hits Included "One Note Samba " "Desafinado" And "I Can't Wait To See My Baby's Face." She Was Nominated For A Grammy For "Desafinado " Only To See Ella Fitzgerald Later Record The Song And Win The Award. read less