David Clayton-Thomas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

David Clayton-Thomas

British musician

Date of Birth: 13-Sep-1941

Place of Birth: Kingston upon Thames, England, United Kingdom

Profession: singer, record producer, singer-songwriter, musician, songwriter, guitarist

Nationality: Canada, United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About David Clayton-Thomas

  • David Clayton-Thomas (born David Henry Thomsett, 13 September 1941) is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the American band Blood, Sweat & Tears.
  • Clayton-Thomas has been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and in 2007 his jazz/rock composition "Spinning Wheel" was enshrined in the Canadian Songwriter's Hall of Fame.
  • In 2010 Clayton-Thomas received his star on Canada's Walk of Fame. Clayton-Thomas began his music career in the early 1960s, working the clubs on Toronto's Yonge Street, where he discovered his love of singing and playing the blues.
  • Before moving to New York City in 1967, Clayton-Thomas fronted a couple of local bands, first The Shays and then The Bossmen, one of the earliest rock bands with significant jazz influences.
  • But the real success came only a few difficult years later when he joined Blood, Sweat & Tears. Clayton-Thomas's first album with the band, Blood, Sweat & Tears (which was released in December 1968) – despite its eponymous title, it was actually the band's second album – sold ten million copies worldwide.
  • The record topped the Billboard album chart for seven weeks and charted for 109 weeks.
  • It won five Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year and Best Performance by a Male Vocalist.
  • It featured three hit singles, "You've Made Me So Very Happy", "Spinning Wheel", and "And When I Die" (on the Hot 100, each peaked at No.
  • 2 and lasted 13 weeks) as well as a memorable rendition of Billie Holiday's "God Bless The Child".With Clayton-Thomas fronting the band, BS&T continued with a string of hit albums, including Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 which featured Carole King's "Hi-De-Ho" and Clayton-Thomas's "Lucretia MacEvil", and Blood, Sweat & Tears 4, which yielded another Clayton-Thomas-penned hit single, "Go Down Gamblin'" and "Lisa Listen to Me". In 1972 Thomas released his first Columbia solo album after BS&T, simply titled "David Clayton Thomas".
  • In 1973 the second solo album Tequila Sunrise was issued by Columbia.
  • In 1974 he issued the Harmony Junction album on RCA.
  • In 1975 Thomas returned to front Blood Sweat & Tears again on the Columbia albums New City and, in 1976, More Than Ever.
  • In 1977 they released Brand New Day on the ABC label.
  • In 1978 Thomas issued another solo album on ABC, titled simply Clayton.
  • In 1980 BS&T issued the MCA album Nuclear Blues, which also included Thomas.
  • Later in the decade Columbia issued the double live BS&T album Live And Improvised again with Thomas.
  • In 2004, Clayton-Thomas left New York for Toronto and launched an All-Star 10-piece band.
  • Since then, he has toured and recorded almost a dozen albums under his own name.

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