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Radha Thomas is the Executive Vice-President at Explocity Private Limited, a media publishing house in India. She has held this position since 1999. She is an author and also a jazz vocalist and the band leader of the jazz-fusion band, UNK: the Radha Thomas Ensemble. She has one son, Stefan Persson, born 20 June 1986. ==Musical career== Thomas studied classical Indian music with two Hindustani vocalists, Kumar Gandharva in New Delhi, and with Ustad Zia Fariduddin Dagar in the art of Dhrupad singing. She blends Indian influences into jazz singing. Radha Thomas began her career as a vocalist in a rock and roll band called Human Bondage. In 1976, she was selected to represent India at jazz vocalists festival held in Warsaw, Poland. She moved to New York, where she lived for 20 years. She performed at major clubs such as Sweet Basil Jazz Club and The Bottom Line. Some of the musicians she has performed with include John Scofield, Michael Brecker, John Faddis, Alex Blake, Ryo Kawasaki, Joe Farrell, Greg Alper and others. Thomas, known as Radha Shottam, was the featured artist on two albums (Mirror of My Mind and Ring Toss) released by jazz guitar player Ryo Kawasaki (Gil Evans Band) and wrote the lyrics for several of the tracks. She returned to India in 1993 and began performing with musicians such as Louis Banks, Sanjay Divecha, Gerard Machado, Keith Peters and others. She formed her own band in 2009. She was host / Radio Jockey for the weekend night jazz show Indigo And Blues on Radio Indigo in Bangalore for two years. Thomas will be performing with Mishko M'ba at the EUROPAFest jazz festival in Bucharest, Romania, in May 2014. Radha has Performed at the ICCR Delhi jazz International Festival, the iSai Music Festival, The Bangalore International Festival, the Bengaluru Habba, the Jazz Yatra, the Arcosanti Festival and others. More recently, Radha's spoof on Bob Marley's (originally The Toyes) 'Smoke Two Joints' called 'Rendu Dosai' was written about and gained a lot of popularity online. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Radha Thomas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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