My name is John - John Thomas - John David Thomas - JT and I am from Indiana, USA having lived all over the USA in 9 states. I've lived in Phoenix, Arizona 4 years (1984 - 1988), Indiana (40 years), southern California 4 years in a row, including Los Angeles, those 4 years, (in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009) and Hollywood, Santa Monica, San Diego, Long Beach, Hawthorne, Modesto, Panorama City, San Jose/Los Gatos, Riverside, San Bernadino, California, then Oregon, Washington state, (Seattle, Mountlake Terrace, and Marysville), Utah, Nashville, Tennessee, south Florida (Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, etc.), and New York City, New York where I now live (Staten Island, NYC NY 10301-2108) and have lived in NYC ever since March 2009, for the past 14+ years now. I was born March 30, 1951 in a small college town in Indiana called Muncie, about 50 miles northeast of Indianapolis (where I grew up in the 1960's and late 1950's, in a conservative area of Indy called Irvington.) I am a lifelong musician and intermittent composer (and former songwriter) with a college degree in "Music Theory and Composition" from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana (my birthplace, literally). I have composed more than 20 genres and styles of music in my lifetime, including rock, disco, jazz-rock, jazz fusion, classical rock, Top 40 rock, piano music, orchestral music, contemporary classical (Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic era music), avant-garde, "musique-concrete", electronic synthesizer music, environmental, mood music, extemporaneous/improvisational, love songs, movie-theme style music, New Age, sacred, "carnal music" (opposite of sacred), World music, you name it...I've done it (musically, that is...) I made a rock and roll Top 40-style record in 1974, with radio airplay in the midwest USA, with 2 of my original songs, "Alabama D.A." and "So Hard, So Long" (written and recorded by me in 1970 and 1973) with me singing lead vocal mostly and playing 5 keyboards on them, on my own record label, Quetico Records. (It was announced in the famous Billboard magazine here in New York City in 1974). It is even played now in L.A., California USA on Lonely Oak Radio station there from time to time. I have played in several rock bands in Indiana and Arizona (variety bands, too) including "The Rebel Kind", "FIRE", "Good Conduct", "John David", "Jetstream" (1977-1983), "Dee Dee Ryan and Ryan's Express" (1984 - 1986 in Apache Junction, Arizona and "Suzanne Heim and the Gulch Gang "(August, 1984 at the former world-famous Pinnacle Peak Patio in Pinnacle Peak, Arizona, about 40 miles northeast of Phoenix, Arizona, where I lived 4 years and 3 months from March 30, 1984 - June 1988, when I then moved 1,800 miles north to Seattle and Mountlake Terrace and then Marysville, Washington where I lived from 1988 - 1990. I was married for 16 years to a religious kindergarten teacher (with a kindergarten "mindset") from July 1974 - November 1990, and had 2 children through that marriage, Bethany and Mark, who were both born in Indianapolis, Indiana in March 1979 and August 1982. They are both married now and both college graduates and Bethany has 2 kids, Jack and Claire, also in Washington state now. Some of my music is famous. My jazz-rock fusion instrumental, "Night Visions" which I composed in 1972 on a Steinway grand piano at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana , is world-famous, having been broadcast on internet radio globally, and elsewhere...(my birthplace) and I recorded it in 1979 in Indianapolis a Neon Cornfield Recording Studio in an ""all-night-long" recording session then. It is broadcast in L.A., California even now from time to time...more about that later....on to the next section of this bio...I have played grand piano professionally at major resorts in Scottsdale, Arizona (1986 - 1987) at The Clarion Inn and The Boulders Resort in Carefree, AZ (now Scottsdale, AZ) which was ranked as the #3 best resort in the entire USA then!!! It was managed by the famous Rockefeller family of New York state, including former Governor of New York, Nelson Rockefeller. I also played piano and Yamaha DX-7 synthesizer in 2 "easy-listening" high-class bands called The Tim Barnett Band and Paul Thomas and Night and Day in 1991 and March 1992 in Indianapolis and the central Indiana area then. I wore a tuxedo for all of those 10 event jobs, as did the other 3 members of those bands. I always had short hair (contrary to popular belief). I also have played cello in orchestras for 20 years in the past from 1960 - 1980 in Indiana USA, including the Indianapolis All-City orchestra and the Indiana All-State Orchestra and I was principal cellist in the Purdue Symphonette orchestra from 1969-1971 and in the BSSO (Ball State Symphony Orchestra (with several musical geniuses in that orchestra). I won the "Outstanding Musician" award in the Purdue Symphonette in 1970, voted on by the entire orchestra!, including 3 musicians from New York City, New York. I have played and programmed complex music synthesizers since the year of 1972, when I used an ARP 2500 studio modular synthesizer (it cost $ 14,000 then!), and my synthesizers called the Yamaha DX-7 digital synthesizer and the Roland JD-990 and Korg 03R-W and Oberheim Matrix 1000 and Kurzweil K2000 Playback sampler (with the real sounds of all the orchestral musical instruments stored in its memory) and Korg Poly-61 synth with an arpeggiator and my Oberheim 4-voice studio modular synthesizer I bought in 1977 (it cost $ 5,200!) I studied cello for 2 years with Joseph Saunders at Ball State U who was a cellist for many years in the famous New York Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony, the top 2 symphony orchestras in the USA. I also studied classical piano with Michel Bourgeot from Paris, France in 1972, who was a graduate of the famous Paris Conservatory of Music in Paris,, France. I played 3 Chopin Preludes for him then, in the keys of B-minor, G-minor and G-sharp minor. Purdue University where I studied for 2 years from 1969 - 1971 in West Lafayette, Indiana was a famous Big 10 college of 25,000 students, with the largest engineering school in the USA with 5,000 engineering students then (I was one of those 5,000, and I was awarded the prestigious General Motors Engineering Scholarship in 1969 and 1970 by General Motors Corporation in Detroit, Michigan (makers of Cadillac, Buick, and Chevrolet cars and GMC trucks and the Saturn car made in Tennessee). Some of my original music is famous. My original songs and instrumentals include the following: Death of Rock and Roll (1970, 1972), "Alabama D.A." (1973), "So Hard, So Long" (1970), 'The Whole World Is Watching" (1972), "Everybody's Sleeping" (1970), "Mary, Mary" (1970), "Circus Flute" (1969), "Eleven Thirty-Seven" (1970), "A Happy Shade of Yellow" (1973), "Two Nudes and a Fire Hydrant" (1972-1974), "When We Dead Awaken" (1972-1974), "Zeitgeist: The Spirit of the Time" (1973), "Apogee" (1974), "Infinity" (1970), "Chant for Orchestra" (1969/1972/1995), "Chrissy" (1979), "In Your Heart" (1983), "Lamentations III" (1983), "Forever" (1979), "Angel" (1972-1973), "Chinese Baby" (1973-1974), "Late in the Summer of '69" (1972), "Majestic Brass Music in F#" (1995), "Pathway to Love" (1995), 'Mystery World #2" (1995), "Trumpet Voluntary in F" (1992), 'Love Flowers: Reflections and Meditations on Beauty and Truth" (1990), "Jubilee in F" (1990), "Praise Him, The King Liveth" (1990), "The North African Desert March", "Touledor" (1972), "The Recurrent New Millenium Olympic Orchestral Disco Festival Dance" (1990), "From Me to You" (1995), "Desires of the Heart" (1995), "The Journey of Life" (1995), "The Little Prince" (1972), "Conelrad" (1969), "In a World Far Away" (1969), "Baby Back" (1969), "Three Nights" (1972), "The Road to Tomorrow" (1995), "My Renaissance Brass Music" (1995), "Chamber Music for Guitar and Harpsichord" (1995), "Mystery Women: Arabian Nights", "GOD 1", "First Things First" (1977), "Orient", "Postlude", "Romance for Piano" (2003), 'The Future Is Now - After the Seventh Trumpet", many more

I was born March 30, 1951 in Indiana, USA and I grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana on Irvington Avenue. I have lived in 9 states of the USA including California, Washington state (Seattle/Mountlake Terrace and Marysville), Nashville, Tennessee; south Florida including Miami and Tampa and St. Petersburg and Clearwater, and finally New York City, New York USA since 2007. I am a lifelong musician (pro) and intermittent composer beginning in the third grade of school in Indianapolis, Indiana. I am also a photographer and have taken famous photographs, like my photo called "The Watchtower" at the world-famous Grand Canyon in extreme northern Arizona in the winter there. I also have photographed world-famous rock stars such as Frank Zappa in 1981 in Bloomington, Indiana backstage. I played the cello for 20 years in Indiana.

I have more than 60+ music tracks now on Spotify, Apple iTunes, Amazon, Apple Music, Pandora, Deezer, the World....these new tracks are: "First Things First" (1977/1980) in funk-rock-fusion; "The Little Prince" (solo piano contemporary classical 13-minutes in duration, composed by me in 1972-73 at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana USA on a Steinway grand piano there..."Ostinato for Double-Reeds" was composed by me and recorded circa 1995 in Studio Central at 2704 Central Court, Indianapolis, INdiana 46280-1930 (Carmel, Indiana area), which I recorded non-stop for 8 years from 1992-2000, composing and recording 10 complete CD albums of music (double-length, one hour each....plus 3 more major double-length CD albums called "Pathway to Love", "Desires of the Heart", and "Early Songs and Jazz of John David Thomas" I have many CDs and MP3 albums and singles now worldwide on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, the world....I am a "degreed composer" with a Bachelor of Science degree in "Music Theory and Composition from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana USA (my birthplace at March 30, 1951), and my degree is dated February 1976. I studied music composition there from 1972-1975 with 4 genius composers: Dr. Ernesto Pellegrini from Julliard School, New York City from Italy...Dr. Cleve Scott, Professor Emeritus, from California...I composed avant-garde "New Music" and "Musique Concrete" for him for 3 years: "my electronic tape music works were titled "When We Dead Awaken" (1972-73); "Zeitgeist: The Spirit of the Time" (1973) and "Apogee" (1974-75) which were all performed in University Hall of Ball State U main campus circa 1975 at a Student Composers concert (multiple)....I have composed more than 20 genres and styles of music in my lifetime...my music is award-winning and has been critically acclaimed and has had radio airplay....100+ of my music works are published with ASCAP publishers since 1974 and I have been a member of ASCAP since 1974/1987 and am presently too. .I am a lifelong musician, photographer, and composer from 1960-2003 and again now in 2017-present.. composing,producing, performing and recording my new music..."The Future Is Now - After the Seventh Trumpet" an 11-minute classical-contemporary-World fusion instrumental, now on Spotify and Amazon and iTunes and Qobuz and Tidal and soundciick.com/johndavidthomas/ All of my music is published by ASCAP publisher "J D Thomas Music Co" (ASCAP) and my avant-garde music is published by Serious Bizness Music Co (ASCAP). All of my recorded music made public is on my record label, "JDT Records" (the Original and famous one, from Indiana, USA, founded by John in 2001 in Hamilton County, Indiana), now at 110 Henderson Avenue, Room 301-A in Staten Island, NY 10301-2108 USA.

John is now age 72, is totally 'single' and unattached bachelor, 'straight', and always looking! I was born on March 30, 1951 in Muncie, Indiana USA (a small college town, home of Ball State University, where I graduated from in February 1976 with a Bachelor's degree in Music Theory and Composition and where I studied music composition with 4 avant garde music composer geniuses: David Foley, Morris Knight, Dr. Cleve Scott from California and Dr. Ernesto Pellegrini from Italy and graduate of the famous Julliard School (of Music) in New York City, New York, USA. See my biographies at: www.musicalics.com/en/composer/john-david-thomas/ Also, my music is being sold worldwide online by APPLE music and ITunes and elsewhere, but I do not get paid any money by them Go to these websites:: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-david-thomas/84/426/204 I am on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/johnt1951 and another MySpace profile at: http://www.myspace.com/johndavidthomas1951 . I am a longtime member of ASCAP in New York City (USA and worldwide) and member of Mensa (the High I.Q. society) and have been member of AES (Audio Engineering Society) in USA and worldwide. I have also been a member of PPA (Professional Photographers of America). My bio is listed in 32 major Who's Who reference books in USA and England since 1989-2006, including 11 times in "Whos Who in America" 1995-2006 and "Whos Who in the World" 15 times from 1992-2006. I have been called "the corporal of the Arts" and a "Renaissance Man". My motto in my companies I formed and still head (JDT Records in Staten Island, (New York City), New York USA) and John David Thomas Productions formed by me in 1993 in Indiana) and others is: "Making Music for the World", and I love the quote of famous avant garde composer, Edgard Varese from France and New York City, who said "Imagination gives form to dreams". I agree! - John in Staten Island (New York City), NY 10301 USA My original songs and compositions can be heard online at: www.soundcloud.com/john-david-thomas (worldwide, more than 5 HOURS of my own original "fresh" music, some of it is famous!) I also get a lot of mail and magazines addressed to me by my short name, "John Thomas" I am registered both ways in Washington D.C. by the top of the U.S. government.(Social Security Administration HQ). On a personal note, I am totally single since 1991 and have two grown children, Bethany and Mark, ages 44 and 40, in Washington state, both married and both college graduates. Mark is a psychotherapist and was in the U.S. Army in the 2nd Gulf War in Iraq. He has a Masters degree from Antioch college in Seattle, Washington in Psychology. Bethany has 2 kids, Jack and Claire.