Ebony Thomas
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Ebony Bones | |
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| Background information | |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, Singer-Songwriter, Record Producer & Actress |
| Years active | 2009–present (singing) |
| Labels | PIAS |
Ebony Bones is a British singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. Writing and producing her debut album Bone Of My Bones, she was named one of the "40 Men And Women Who Make London" by Time Out for their 40th Anniversary edition as well as producing the soundtrack for Yves Saint Laurent's Manifesto campaign. Currently finishing work on her much anticipated sophomore album, in 2011 Ebony Bones supported Cee Lo Green on his European tour, and will be starring as Pop'pea at The Théâtre du Châtelet in Monteverdi's original Opera L’incoronazione di Poppea co-starring The Libertines frontman Carl Barât in 2012.
Acting Career
Born Ebony Thomas it is known she won a scholarship to London's Sylvia Young Theatre School alongside fellow classmate Amy Winehouse, where she began her career at the age of 12, when she was spotted by BAFTA award winning actor and Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Mark Rylance, for his production of Macbeth also starring actress Jane Horrocks. Nominated for The British Soap Awards in 2004 and 2005 for playing the role of Yasmin Green on the FIVE (UK) TV drama 'Family Affairs', she was one of the programme's youngest, longest-serving and most popular cast members.
Music Career
A self-taught musician named Ebony Bones! by The Damned drummer Rat Scabbies, she anonymously uploaded music onto a blank myspace page. Writing and producing her own material, "We Know All About U" depicting an Orwellian society, made its radio debut as "The Hottest Record In The World Today" as well as "Single Of The Week" on BBC Radio 1 by Dj Zane Lowe, also receiving daytime play from Jo Whiley, becoming Radio 1's most played single by an unsigned artist. Named one of the best artists of SXSW in Austin, Texas, her debut album Bone Of My Bone was released that year in 2009 featuring W.A.R.R.I.O.R and Guess We'll Always Have NY later used for campaigns by Yves Saint Laurent, EA Sports FIFA 2011 soundtrack, and a controversial Citroën car commercial featuring the late John Lennon, which was later banned in parts of Europe.
Photographed for The New York Times by legendary photographer Jean-Baptiste Mondino and appearing in publications such as Rolling Stone, Vogue, NME, Q, The Guardian, The Observer, i-D, and Entertainment Weekly, she has also graced the covers of French lifestyle magazine Télérama three times, Tsugi, Japan's Eyescream, as well as German music magazine De:Bug.
Known for her genre blending sound, onstage antics and theatrical costumes, she opened for Cee Lo Green 2011 Tour across the UK and Europe. Ebony Bones also debuted new material from her upcoming sophomore album at The Cannes Film Festival and T-Mobile International Film Festival in mid 2011. In 2010 she was requested to perform live at The Shanghai World Trade Show Expo 2010, Central Park SummerStage in New York, and The Grand Palais in Paris for SFR live concerts. In the summer of 2011 Ebony Bones headlined Solidays Domino Stage in front of an audience of over 60,000 people to raise money and awareness for the AIDS charity foundation.
Théâtre du Châtelet - Pop'pea
In 2012 Ebony Bones will return to the stage to star as Poppea, wife of Nero in psycho-Opera Pop'pea taken from Monteverdi's original Opera L’incoronazione di Poppea co-starring The Libertines frontman Carl Barât at the legendary Théâtre du Châtelet. Directed and produced from the same team who brought Monkey: Journey to the West with Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett
External links
- Ebony Bones at MySpace
- Ebony Bones at MTV News
- [1] – Self Titled
- [2] Ebony Bones cover of Tsugi Mag (France)
- [3] Aliens Ate My Minibus – myspace blog
- Ebony Bones 'The Muzik' music video
- [4] SXSW Best New Acts
- {http://www.usen-magazine.jp/es/0906.html] Ebony Bones cover of Eyescream Mag (Japan)
- Ebony Bones at CTM.08 openingsnight in Berlin
References
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