Lamar Adot Thomas is 10 albums in, and he's still maintaining momentum. In the weeks leading up to his 10th effort, Sade Flow, the 33-year-old artist is feeling more confident than ever.
Lamar Adot Thomas is 10 albums in, and he's still maintaining momentum. In the weeks leading up to his 10th effort,On a Saturday afternoon, we catch up with Thomas as he sits with a mango-banana smoothie at Café Brazil in Deep Ellum, just minutes away from where he lives. Days after our conversation, he's hanging up posters in the neighborhood, which remains one of his favorite places to perform.
Thomas moved to Dallas in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. He looked at his family’s relocation to Dallas as a chance to start over. After coming out of a relationship that lasted over six years, Thomas wanted to channel Sade’s mellow, downtempo flow for his upcoming project, on which he collaborated with Denton-based producer Loop 288.
“I knew that classic guitar riff from [Parton’s] ‘Jolene,’” Loop says, “And I just decided I wanted to flip it, and Lamar made it work.” “Thomas is my biological last name, and Holliday is my stepfather’s last name,” Thomas says. “It was me actually recognizing my own traumas that my dad and my biological dad and stepdad had placed upon me, and me not even realizing it. I used to fight for both of their love, and I wanted them both to feel like I’m the greatest son ever. I think I cried a little bit recording it.”
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