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David Clayton-Thomas (David Henry Thomsett) was born on 13 September, 1941 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, is a British-Canadian musician. Discover David Clayton-Thomas's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

Popular As David Henry Thomsett
Occupation Singer, musician, songwriter, record producer
Age 83 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 13 September, 1941
Birthday 13 September
Birthplace Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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1941

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 U. S. band Blood, Sweat & Tears.

1960

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.

1962

Upon his release from detention in 1962, he gravitated to the Yonge Street "strip" in Toronto.

Rhythm & blues migrating up from Detroit and Chicago was the music of choice on the strip, and Arkansas rockabilly pioneer Ronnie Hawkins recognized the formidable talent of the young 'Sonny' Thomas and took him under his wing.

It wasn't long before he was fronting his own bands.

The first was called David Clayton Thomas and The Fabulous Shays.

By this time, he had changed his surname to put some distance between his new life and his troubled teenage years.

1964

In 1964 Clayton-Thomas and The Shays recorded a rendition of John Lee Hooker's "Boom Boom".

This led to a New York engagement for the Shays on NBC-TV's Hullabaloo at the invitation of its host, fellow Canadian Paul Anka.

Abandoning the bars on the strip, Clayton-Thomas began performing in Yorkville Village's coffeehouses.

He immersed himself in the local jazz & blues scene dominated by the likes of John Lee Hooker, Joe Williams, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Lenny Breau, Oscar Peterson, and Moe Koffman.

1965

The album David Clayton Thomas and the Shays à Go-Go was recorded for Roman Records in 1965, and was followed by David Clayton Thomas Sings Like It Is! for the same label in 1966.

Clayton-Thomas made his mark more forcibly with his next band, The Bossmen, one of the first rock bands anywhere to include jazz musicians.

1966

In 1966 he wrote and performed the R&B-driven anti-war song "Brainwashed", which became a major Canadian hit, peaking at No. 11 on the national RPM chart.

One night in 1966 after "sitting in" with blues singer John Lee Hooker in Yorkville, Clayton-Thomas left with him for New York.

They played a Greenwich Village club for a couple of weeks; Hooker then left for Europe and Clayton-Thomas stayed on in New York City.

He survived by playing "basket houses", where performers were given a few minutes of stage time and then passed the basket.

Folk singer Judy Collins heard Clayton-Thomas one night at a club uptown and told her friend, drummer Bobby Colomby, about him.

Bobby's band, Blood Sweat & Tears, had broken up four months after releasing its debut Columbia album, Child Is Father to the Man.

Colomby was impressed with Clayton-Thomas's vocal talent and he invited him to join the band.

They took the reformed group into the Cafe Au Go-Go in the Village.

1967

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 was born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, the son of Fred Thomsett, a decorated Canadian soldier of World War II.

Clayton-Thomas's mother, Freda May (née Smith), played the piano and met Thomsett when she came to entertain the troops at a London hospital.

After the war, the family settled in Willowdale, Toronto.

From the beginning, Clayton-Thomas and his father had a troubled relationship.

By the time Clayton-Thomas was fourteen, he had left home and was sleeping in parked cars and abandoned buildings and stealing food and clothing to survive.

He was arrested several times for vagrancy, petty theft, and street brawls and spent his teen years bouncing in and out of various jails and reformatories, including the Burwash Industrial Farm.

He inherited a love for music from his mother, and when an old guitar came into his possession, left behind by an outgoing inmate, he began to teach himself to play.

1968

Clayton-Thomas's first album with the band, Blood, Sweat & Tears (which was released in December 1968) – despite being self-titled, 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.

1974

In his 1974 autobiography, Clive: Inside the Record Business, Clive Davis, then president of Columbia Records, described his initial impression of Clayton-Thomas singing at the Café Au Go-Go:

He was staggering... a powerfully built singer who exuded an enormous earthy confidence.

He jumped right out at you.

I went with a small group of people, and we were electrified.

He seemed so genuine, so in command of the lyric... a perfect combination of fire and emotion to go with the band’s somewhat cerebral appeal.

I knew he would be a strong, strong figure.

2007

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.

2010

In 2010, Clayton-Thomas received his star on Canada's Walk of Fame.