Grady Thomas
Grady Thomas (born January 5, 1941 in Newark, New Jersey, United States) is a former member of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic.[1][2] Thomas lives in Stone Mountain, Georgia.
Thomas started out in the late 1950s as one of The Parliaments, a doo wop barbershop quintet led by George Clinton.[3] In 1977, Thomas (along with other original Parliaments Fuzzy Haskins and Calvin Simon), left Parliament-Funkadelic after financial and management disputes with Clinton, The trio formed a new funk band and released an album called Connections and Disconnections in 1981, using the name Funkadelic. Other names used in the years to follow would include "Original P".
References
- ↑ Bush, John. "Biography: Parliament". Allmusic. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
- ↑ Bush, John. "Biography: Funkadelic". Allmusic. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
- ↑ Greenberg, Adam. "Biography: The Parliaments". Allmusic. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
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