Tasha Thomas

Disco diva Tasha Thomas was born in Jeutyn, AK, to a father who worked for the Atomic Energy Commission and a mother who was ordained as a Pentecostal minister. She began playing the organ and singing in her mother's church; when she moved to New York City during the late '60s to pursue music, she took up with another church choir through a connection of her mother's. Her involvement with the choir led to a gig singing backup vocals on Louis Armstrong's 1968 What a Wonderful World album, and from there she moved into a career in secular music as a much-sought-after session voc...