Grady Thomas

Grady Thomas

Grady Thomas (born January 5, 1941 in Newark, New Jersey, United States) was a 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.

Thomas started out in the late 1950s as one of The Parliaments, a doo wop barbershop quintet lead by George Clinton. 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 "The Original P".


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