Thomson Andrews

Thomson Andrews (born on September 25, 1987, in Mumbai, India) is an Indian contemporary R&B, Pop, Funk & Soul singer-songwriter, performer, recording artist, actor, TV host and a contemporary Indian Bollywood Playback singers.

In 2005, he won a gospel talent show at the age of seventeen.

He continued working while pursuing his college education as a science major.

Andrews did not pursue music full-time.

Instead, he began a corporate career and worked for four years, gaining experience in auditing, human resources, inventory, and contact centres among others.

To pursue his musical ambitions, Andrews switched to teaching Western music.

He then started doing shows and concert performances.

He began his music career when he performed at the Indian Premier League (IPL) awards show with A. R. Rahman, his choir conductor Celeste Cordo and his mentor Clinton Cerejo.

Subsequently, he worked with ad composer Rupert Fernandes who used his voice on ad jingles for products like Nestlé, HCL, and Volkswagen.

After the IPL, he continued working with A. R. Rahman on film projects, songs, and background scores with Clinton Cerejo and Suzanne D'Mello.

Andrews has lent his voice to movie songs as an additional vocalist for music directors and has sung on projects and jingles for various ad jingle composers in the advertising industry.

Thomson started his career with Grammy and Academy Award-winning Music Composer A R Rahman in 2010 and to date has sung in several Bollywood and South Indian films.

He is known for his associations with music projects such as Coke Studio (India), MTV Unplugged (India) and has been featured on MTV India along with composers Amit Trivedi, Clinton Cerejo, Shankar Ehsaan Loy, Pritam, Ranjit Barot and singers Neha Kakkar, Arijit Singh, Sonu Nigam, Shafqat Amanat Ali, Agnee, Indian Ocean.

Thomson has worked with Indian Music and Film stalwarts such as Vishal Bhardwaj, Mira Nair, Vishal Shekhar, Salim Sulaiman, Ajay Atul, Hitesh Sonik, Leslie Lewis, Anu Malik, Amaal Malik, and Sohail Sen.

He has also toured with singers such as Sunidhi Chauhan for 3 years as a filler performer, and singer Mohit Chauhan for 2 years.

Thomson performed for Vogue India's Women Empowerment initiative #VogueEmpower in 2014.

Besides his solo accolades, projects, Motown, R&B, Funk music tribute concerts and collaborations, he is part of a popular Indian A cappella ensemble called Raaga Trippin' with whom he performs live shows and creates unique renditions of cover songs as well as originals.

His credits for singing and vocal arrangements are mentioned in Bollywood film productions from 2014 to 2015 including Dhoom 3, D-Day, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, Bang Bang, Happy New Year, Hasee Toh Phasee, Byomkesh Bakshi, and Bombay Velvet.

He sang playback songs "Bach Ke Bakshi" for the 2015 movie Byomkesh Bakshi for music director Sneha Khanwalkar; "Shehar Mera" for the movie One By Two for music directors Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy; and "Rumani," a duet with Shalmali Kholgade in the movie Akaash Vani for music director Hitesh Sonik.

Apart from Bollywood films, he has also sung playback songs in South Indian films for music director M. Ghibran: "Saridhaana Saridhaana" for the Tamil movie Amara Kaaviyam, "Rajadhi Rajanappa" song for the Telugu film Run Raja Run, "O Pagol Mon" for the Bengali movie Dashami and "Kanna Muche" for the Tulu Film Aamait Asal Eemait Kusal.

In 2017, Thomson performed for Amazon Prime India on a music and dance reality TV show called The Remix, on which he was the finalist, along with his DJ partner NSG.

After that, Thomson was hired by American Idol to promote the show among Indian audiences via Indian Broadcasting Channel ZeeCafe.

Thomson has sung for Netflix films —Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, The Christmas Chronicles 2, Ludo, Netflix animated series Centaurworld, Money Heist Season 5 Promo song Jaldi Aao and sung on the background score of the upcoming film Brahmāstra, directed by Ayan Mukerji.

Thomson' singles and Remixes are released across all major Indian record labels such as "Uff Teri Ada", "Suit Suit Karda", "Hare Ram" on Tseries, "Rockstar Live" on Zee Music Company, and Happy Nagar on Times Music.

Thomson has sung on numerous Hindi dubbed Disney productions ; including from the Winnie The Pooh franchise, The Little Mermaid TV series, and films Encanto, The Jungle Book 2,, 2019's The Lion King and Aladdin , 2017's Beauty and the Beast, as well as Toy Story, Frozen, The Princess and the Frog and Marvel Studios's Hawkeye series on Disney+.

He is the dub voice of 'Wembley' on Apple TV+'s comedy puppet series Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock and Gonger on Sesame Street.

He has been certified as a Performing Vocalist by Trinity College Of Music, London, and has briefly trained in Hindustani classical singing.

Apart from live performances, he also sings on and arranges voicings for films playback songs & background scores.

Thomson has sung film songs and ad jingles in several Indian languages such as – Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tulu, Marathi, Bengali.

He also has several International ad jingles to his credit for products in Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, West Indies, and more.

He also sings in foreign languages such as Swahili, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish and more.

His debut Neo-Soul single ' People Ain't Things was mastered by Grammy Award winning mastering engineer Reuben Cohen from Lurssen Mastering in Hollywood, California.

He is one of the few Indian indie artists whose music has featured on national television networks like MTV Indies, VH1 India and 9xO and the radio station Radio One (India).

He is also known for his quirky style, funky hair- do's, and glasses.

In 2020, Thomson's musical influences and songwriting skills include the genres of pop, R&B, funk, Neo-soul, blues, soul, jazz, gospel, hip-hop, opera, soft rock, rock and roll and Sufi.

He also mentors new musicians via his Indie Music Label Throan Of Art Music, guiding them with professional singing tips onstage and in the recording studio.

Andrews' involvement in music began when he sang at school competitions.

As a Roman Catholic, he also participated in his church choir.

His family had roots in Gospel music and its related genres such as blues, soul, and R&B.

Andrews was born in Mumbai to a liberal South Indian family, with a father from Kerala and a mother from Chennai.