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Priya Thomas PRIYA THOMAS may well be one of Canada’s best-kept secrets. Long considered bold and innovative, Canadian songstress, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist PRIYA THOMAS has built a solid reputation for her work by bucking trends and never underestimating her audience.
Priya Thomas grew up the daughter of a Syrian Orthodox minister and a phycisist mother. Priya was raised straddling three languages at home and the expectations of competing cultural and religious identities and dissonaces around her. By the time she was thirteen, she had lived a lot of life; with several years as a dancer behind her, several cultural transitions and transatlantic moves, her father’s decision to become and ordained minister, and a 6 month episode with alopecia areata, where her hair fell out in perfect little circles and then grew back as easily. The increased pressure to understand her place in the world led to her throwing all of her weight behind her musical work which began with early journal entries spun out in an all girls convent school at the age of eleven. Following her early touring experience, which included a North American tour with the British band James, Thomas set out to record her first efforts. Both In the Throes of the Microscope and Armageddon Weather Channel were critically acclaimed across Canada. A third record, Songs for Car Commercials, was released in 2003 to wider international exposure. Her most recent release, You and Me Against the World Baby was signed to IRL Uk in 2007; and Priya Thomas and her band have toured the UK extensively in support of the record since 2006. More information is available at http://www.priyathomas.com |
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