Dywayne Thomas

About Dywayne Thomas

Who is it?: Miscellaneous Crew, Actor, Camera Department
Birth Day: August 06, 1990
Birth Place:  City of London, London, England, United Kingdom
Birth Sign: Gemini
Also known as: MonoNeon Polyneon Dwayne Thomas DJ
Genres: Noise music, blues, avant garde, experimental music, gospel, pop, R&B, and funk
Occupation(s): Musician (bassist and composer)
Associated acts: Prince, David Fiuczynski, Ne-Yo, Judith Hill, The Bar-Kays, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Kirk Whalum, Wax, Ghostnote

Dywayne Thomas Net Worth

Dywayne Thomas was born on August 06, 1990 in  City of London, London, England, United Kingdom, is Miscellaneous Crew, Actor, Camera Department. Dywayne Thomas was born in London, England. He is an actor and martial artist known for Hello Au Revoir and Ted Bundy Had a Son. Thomas is a lover of great movies. He has a Black belt in Karate and is a winner of multiple National, English and British Karate Championship awards. He is a former Junior British Individual and Team Kata Champion, who represented the London Goju Ryu Karate team between 1987 and 1992.Dywayne has an impressive portfolio of professional security, medical, health and production safety qualifications. He has extensive experience as a security professional. Clients will range from production, broadcast/media organizations, music artists, entertainment personalities to royal and diplomatic individuals.Dywayne holds an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, a Master of Arts in Fine Art from the University of Hertfordshire and a HND in Fashion Design and Technology from the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, formerly The London Institute. He is an Alumnus of the Alumni of the London College of Fashion, which includes: Driss Jettou, former PM of Morocco; shoe designer, Jimmy Choo and super model and designer, Alek Wek.He is of mixed Afro-Caribbean and Amerindian heritage. With a passion for carnival arts, dance and music, Dywayne has performed as a session musician/vocalist and performer with vocal groups, bands, steel orchestras and carnival clubs including: Perpetual Beauty Carnival Association, Pantonic Steel Orchestra, Mangrove Steel band, Eclipse Steel band, Parchmore Project Choir, One Voice Community Choir with Bizzi Dixon and Black Theatre Co-operative with Felix Cross MBE.His interests include Photography, Heraldy and African Royalty, Martial Arts, Calligraphy, Acting, Media Production, Photography and Illustration.
Dywayne Thomas is a member of Miscellaneous Crew

💰 Net worth: Under Review

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Famous Quotes:

You may recognize Kirk A Johnson on drums, Mono Neon on bass and Adrian Crutchfield on sax and electric woodwinds as the house band 4 Prince’s Paisley Park After Dark Jam Sessions. Well, that’s not all they do. 4 the past week they’ve been cutting basic trax 4 their as yet untitled debut album. With Prince producing and handling the keyboard & guitar duties, the set promises 2 b picking up right where Judith Hill’s BACK IN TIME left off. These brothas murder the funk! Normally they wouldn’t let a track out until it’s finished, but this one had 2 go! It was ruining everybody’s good loox. If U think U can resist the funk, check out the key change of Mono’s bass solo at near 4 o'clockmark

Biography/Timeline

2006

Thomas was raised in a musical family, the son of a bass Guitarist. He began playing bass at the age of four years, independent of formal lessons (self-taught). When he was about 11 or 12 years old, he performed with Bar-Kays, playing solo bass guitar. At age 14, he played bass with the South Soul Rhythm Section, the band performed at the Porretta Soul Festival 2006. South Soul was a group of young Musicians from Stax Music Academy.

2009

In 2009, Thomas was featured on the GospelChops Bass Sessionz Vol.1 project with Andrew Gouche, Hadrien Feraud, Damian Erskine, Janek Gwizdala, Anthony Nembhard, and Robert "Bubby" Lewis.

2010

MonoNeon performed with Sheri Jones-Moffett (2010 Grammy nominee) at the Recording Academy Chapter 40th Anniversary Celebration at Levitt Shell.

2011

The idea of conceptual art plays a role in his musical compositions, as reflected in his early 2011 recordings. Thomas began creating a vague idea of bass and AM/FM radio improvisations. The improvisations/compositions are based on radio art. Some of the bass and radio improvisations/compositions can be heard on his album entitled, Introspection of PolyNeon. The "Polyneon" concept is something Thomas created through introspection and when he stopped thinking about the worldly idea of becoming or being a great musician.

2012

In 2012, Thomas joined David Fiuczynski and Planet Microjam. Also in 2012, he released his solo avant-garde album, Down-to-Earth Art as MonoNeon.

2013

MonoNeon was featured in the January/February 2013 issue of Dig! Magazine, a Winnipeg jazz magazine.

2014

One of MonoNeon's bass cover videos performing KNOWER's arrangement/medley of Lady Gaga songs was voted Top 10 most watched video on NoTreble (March 2014).

2015

In 2015 MonoNeon began playing bass with Prince and his protégé, Judith Hill. Some of the live shows have been at Paisley Park.

2016

On 11 January 2016, Tidal released the track Ruff Enuff by MonoNeon, only four and a half days after its initial recording. The instrumental track features Prince as Producer and on keyboards. The following day, the track was replaced with a vocal version with lead vocals on vocoder by Adrian Crutchfield.