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Truth Thomas (born Glenn Edward Thomas in Knoxville, Tennessee) is an African-American singer-songwriter, poet, editor, publisher and founder of Cherry Castle Publishing, LLC. He is the author of ''Party of Black'' (2006), ''A Day of Presence'' (2008), ''Bottle of Life'' (2010), ''Speak Water'' (2012), winner of the 2013 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry, and ''My TV is Not the Boss of Me'' (2013), Jessie Redmon Fauset Book Award Finalist 2014, a children's book, illustrated by Cory Thomas. In the context of his early music career (recording as Glenn Edward Thomas), his first full-length studio album, ''Take Love'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.discogs.com/Glenn-Edward-Thomas-Take-Love/release/2784760 )〕 was produced in 1982 on Capitol Records by ''Soul Train'' television show creator and host Don Cornelius. In 1992, Thomas officially changed his name from Glenn Edward Thomas to Truth Thomas. ==Early life== He was born into an intellectual and musical family. His grandmother was a teacher, a soprano and a violinist. His mother was also a teacher and soprano, who was also a linguist and an accomplished pianist. All of Thomas' aunts, uncles, great aunts and uncles played instruments, from French horns to cornets to trombones. He was surrounded by music as a child in the South, and mentored both by the music of his family and the music of the Tabernacle Baptist Church in East Tennessee. In the late 1960s, after his family moved to the Washington Metropolitan Area, he spent much of his musical youth at Rock Creek Baptist Church on 8th and Upshur Streets, NW. Before Thomas fell in love with the piano, he played the violin, clarinet and guitar. Among his Washington, D.C. music mentors were drummer Michael L. Johnson and vocalist/percussionist Bobby Thurston of the band, Spectrum, Ltd. Thomas attended Montgomery Blair High School. After graduation, he attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., as a Political Science major by day, and a burgeoning singer-songwriter by night. While there, Thomas performed with the musical group Members Only and worked at clubs around the local D.C. area along with drummer George Jones, bassist Michael Paige, vocalist Patty Robinson (alto), percussionist Michael Smith and Angela Wray (soprano). He left Howard in 1980, without a degree, to pursue a full-time music career in Los Angeles. In 1981, Don Cornelius signed him to a production agreement with Capitol Records (where he collaborated with O’Bryan and Melvin Lee Davis). After living, and working, in Los Angeles, and also in London, for many years, Thomas returned to the Washington Metropolitan Area in the early 2000s, where he extended the list of his artistic interests to include the formal study of poetry. In 2004, Thomas returned to his academic pursuits at Howard University, studying Creative Writing under Professor Tony Medina. Truth Thomas received his M.F.A. from New England College in 2008. 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「Truth Thomas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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