Multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Thomas James was destined for a life in the music industry. From an early age, he was exposed to a musical family and well accomplished musicians and decided to take the leap into his own career in music. Having broad exposure to various musical genres, his unmistakeable influences are classic Soul, Pop and Funk.
Thomas has successfully completed his study at ‘Hunter School of Performing Arts’ in Broadmeadow and the ‘Talent Development Project’ (TDP) in Sydney. He has also attended songwriting workshops held by Gina Jeffreys and Rod McCormack to increase his song-writing ability. For six years (2013-2019), Thomas has performed as a featured artist in the arena spectacular ‘Star Struck’, as well as journeying onto the musical theatre stage and performing alongside multi-award-winning artists such as Gina Jeffreys, Beccy Cole, Bella and Lyn Bowtell. His passion, enthusiasm and drive for a life in music are set to take him on an exciting and fulfilling journey. Thomas also teaches music lessons (including piano, guitar and singing) to share his passion of music.
Thomas is currently performing in venues around Newcastle area as a solo artist. He is also spending his time working in his home studio, recording covers and demos to share to the world. Thomas is determined for an exciting future in the music industry, and continuously works hard to increase his skills and knowledge and make the most out of his talent.
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20 Good Reasons - Thirsty Merc
2002 - Anne-Marie
3AM - Matchbox 20
867-5309 (Jenny) - Tommy Tutone
A
The A Team - Ed Sheeran
Accidentally in Love - Counting Crows
Adore You - Harry Styles
All Night Long - Lionel Richie
Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again - Angels
Amazing - Alex Lloyd
Animal - Neon Trees
Apologise - One Republic
April Sun in Cuba - Dragon
Are You Old Enough - Dragon
As It Was - Harry Styles
Attention - Charlie Puth
B
Baby One More Time - Britney Spears
Bad Case of Lovin’ You - Robert Palmer
Bad Day - Daniel Porter
Bad Habits - Ed Sheeran
Banana Pancakes - Jack Johnson
Better Be Home Soon - Crowded House
Big Jet Plane - Angus and Julia Stone
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
Black & Gold - Sam Sparro
Black or White - Michael Jackson
Blame it on the Boogie - The Jackson 5
Blinding Lights - The Weeknd
Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes
Blurred Lines - Robin Thicke
Boot Scootin' Boogie - Brooks & Dunn
Boys Light Up - Australian Crawl
Breakeven - The Script
Breaking Free - High School Musical
Brother - Matt Corby
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
Budapest - George Ezra
C
Cake By the Ocean - DNCE
California Gurls - Katy Perry
Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen
Can’t Feel My Face - The Weeknd
Can’t Stop the Feeling - Justin Timberlake
Careless Whispers - George Michael
Castle on the Hill - Ed Sheeran
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
Chicken Fried - Zac Brown Band
Classic - MKTO
Clocks - Coldplay
Closer - Ne-Yo
Closing Time - Semisonic
Coming Home - Sheppard
Counting Stars - One Republic
Crazy - Gnarles Barkley
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
Creep - Radiohead
D
Dancing in the Dark - Bruce Springsteen
Dancing in the Moonlight - Toploader
Dancing on the Ceiling - Lionel Richie
Dancing with a Stranger - Sam Smith
December 1963 (Oh What a Night) - The Four Seasons
Demons - Imagine Dragons
Don’t - Ed Sheeran
Don’t Dream It’s Over - Crowded House
Don’t Stop - Fleetwood Mac
Don’t Stop Believing - Journey
Dream Catch Me - Newton Faulkner
Drops of Jupiter - Train
Dynamite - Taio Cruz
E
Electric Feel - MGMT
Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes
Everlong - Foo Fighters
Everybody (Backstreet’s Back) - Backstreet Boys
Everybody Talks - Neon Trees
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
F
Faith - George Michael
Fall At Your Feet - Crowded House
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
Fix You - Coldplay
Flametrees - Cold Chisel
Footloose - Kenny Loggins
Forget You - Cee Lo Green
Free Fallin’ - Tom Petty
Fresh Eyes - Andy Grammer
G
Geronimo - Sheppard
Get Lucky - Daft Punk
Get Set - Taxi Ride
Girls Like You - Maroon 5
Gives You Hell - All-American Rejects
Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac
Good Riddance - Green Day
Grace Kelly - Mika
Gravity - John Mayer
Grenade - Bruno Mars
H
Halo - Beyonce
Hello - Lionel Richie
Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles
Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
Here Without You - 3 Doors Down
Hey Leonardo - Blessid Union of Souls
Hey There Delilah - Plain White T’s
Hey Ya - Outkast
Hey, Soul Sister - Train
Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar
Hold Back the River - James Bay
Hooked on A Feeling - Blue Swede
Hot in Here - Nelly
The Horses - Darryl Braithwaite
Hotel California - The Eagles
I
I Don’t Care - Ed Sheeran
I Don't Want to Miss a Thing - Aerosmith
I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues - Elton John
I Just Died in Your Arms - Cutting Crew
I Kissed a Girl - Katy Perry
I Knew You Were Trouble - Taylor Swift
I Lived - One Republic
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For - U2
I Want It That Way - Backstreet Boys
I Want To Know What Love Is - Foreigner
I Want You Back - The Jackson 5
I Was Made for Lovin’ You - Kiss
I Will Wait - Mumford & Sons
I Won't Back Down - Tom Petty
I'll Be There For You - Rembrandts
I’m A Believer - Monkees
I’m Yours - Jason Mraz
IDGAF - Dua Lipa
Imagine - John Lennon
In the Summertime - Thirsty Merc
Isn’t She Lovely - Stevie Wonder
J
Jessie’s Girl - Rick Springfield
The Joker - Steve Miller Band
Just the Two of Us - Bill Withers
Just the Way You Are - Bruno Mars
K
Kiss - Prince
L
Last Friday Night (TGIF) - Katy Perry
Learn to Fly - Foo Fighters
Learning to Fly - Tom Petty
Leave Me Alone - P!nk
Lego House - Ed Sheeran
Let Her Go - Passenger
Let it Be - The Beatles
Let Me Down Easy - Shepparrd
Let Me Love You - Mario
Let Me Love You - Ne-Yo
Levitating - Dua Lipa
Life is a Highway - Rascal Flats
Listen to the Music - The Doobie Brothers
Little Wonders - Rob Thomas
Livin’ on a Prayer - Bon Jovi
Locked Out of Heaven - Bruno Mars
Lost in Japan - Shawn Mendez
Love on Top - Beyonce
Love Story - Taylor Swift
Love Yourself - Justin Bieber
Lover (You Don't Treat Me No Good No More) - Sonia Dada
M
Magic - Coldplay
Mamma Mia - Abba
Man in the Mirror - Michael Jackson
The Middle - Jimmy Eat World
The Middle - Zedd
Miss Independent - Ne-Yo
Mr. Brightside - The Killers
Mustang Sally - The Commitments
N
Need You Now - Lady A
Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley
Never Tear Us Apart - INXS
No Diggity - Blackstreet
No Scrubs - TLC
O
One of These Nights - The Eagles
Opportunity - Pete Murray
P
Play That Funky Music - Cherry
Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard
PYT - Michael Jackson
P
Party in the USA - Miley Cyrus
Payphone - Maroon 5
Photograph - Ed Sheeran
Play That Funky Music - Cherry
Pour Some Sugar on Me - Def Leppard
Pumped Up Kicks - Foster the People
Put Your Records On - Corinne Bailey Rae
R
Radioactive - Imagine Dragons
Rewrite the Stars - The Greatest Showman
Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac
Riptide - Vance Joy
Roar - Katy Perry
Rock Your Body - Justin Timberlake
Rocket Man - Elton John
Rude - MAGIC!
Run to Paradise - The Choirboys
Run to You - Bryan Adams
S
Saturday Sun - Vance Joy
Save Tonight - Eagle-Eye Cherry
Say My Name - Destiny’s Child
Scar - Missy Higgins
Send Me on My Way - Rusted Root
September - Earth, Wind & Fire
Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon
Shake It - Metro Station
Shallow - Lady Gaga
Shape of You - Ed Sheeran
She Looks So Perfect - 5SOS
She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5
She’s So High - Tal Bachman
Shut Up and Dance - Walk the Moon
Simply The Best - Tina Turner
Sing - Ed Sheeran
Slow Dancing in a Burning Room - John Mayer
Slow Hands - Niall Horan
Smooth - Santana
So Sick - Ne-Yo
Solid Rock - Goanna
Somebody Like You - Keith Urban
Somebody That I Used to Know - Gotye
Something Just Like This - Coldplay
Stacy's Mom - Fountains of Wayne
Stand By Me - Ben E. King
Stay - Justin Bieber
Stay - Rihanna
Stay With Me - Sam Smith
Stayin’ Alive - Bee Gees
Steal My Girl - One Direction
Steer - Missy Higgins
Straight Lines - Silverchair
Stuck In the Middle With You - Stealers Wheel
Sugar - Maroon 5
Summer of ’69 - Bryan Adams
Sunday Morning - Maroon 5
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
Sweet Child o’Mine - Guns N’ Roses
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Sweet Disposition - Temper Trap
T
Take It Easy - The Eagles
Teenage Dirtbag - Wheatus
Teenage Dreams - Katy Perry
Tennessee Whiskey - Chris Stapleton
That’s Freedom - John Farnham
There’s Nothing Holding Me Back - Shawn Mendez
These Days - Powder Finger
This Love - Maroon 5
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
Tiny Dancer - Elton John
Tip of My Tongue - Diesel
To Her Door - Paul Kelly
Tonight Tonight - Hot Chelle Rae
Toxic - Britney Spears
Treasure - Bruno Mars
Treat You Better - Shawn Mendez
Tribute - Tenacious D
Two Princes - Spin Doctors
U
Umbrella - Rihanna
Underneath the Radar - Underworld
Uptown Funk - Bruno Mars
Use Somebody - Kings of Leon
V
Valerie - Amy Winehouse
Viva La Vida - Coldplay
W
Wagon Wheel - Darius Rucker
Waiting on the World to Change - John Mayer
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go - Wham!
Walking in Memphis - Marc Cohn
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina & The Waves
WannaBe - Spice Girls
Want to Want Me - Jason Derulo
Watermelon Sugar - Harry Styles
The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby
We Are Never Getting Back Together - Taylor Swift
We Don’t Talk Anymore - Charlie Puth
What I Like About You - The Romantics
What Makes You Beautiful - One Direction
What’s My Scene - Hoodoo Gurus
What’s Up - 4 Non Blondes
Wherever You Will Go - The Calling
Wicked Game - Chris Isaak
Wild World - Cat Stevens
Wish You Well - Bernard Fanning
Without You - David Guetta ft. Usher
Wonderwall - Oasis
Y
Yeah 3x - Chris Brown
Yellow - Coldplay
You Make My Dreams Come True - Hall & Oates
You’re the Voice - John Farnham
Young Blood - 5SOS
Your Body is a Wonderland - John Mayer
Your Song - Elton John
Z
Zombie - The Cranberries
Love Songs
A Thousand Years - Christina Perri
A Whole New World - Aladdin
All of Me - John Legend
Better Together - Jack Johnson
Burn For You - John Farnham
Can’t Help Falling in Love - Elvis Presley
Come on Get Higher - Matt Nathanson
Every Breath You Take - The Police
Fly Me To the Moon - Frank Sinatra
Heaven - Bryan Adams
Hold Me in Your Arms - Southern Suns
How Deep Is Your Love - Bee Gees
How Sweet It Is - James Taylor
I Get to Love You - Ruelle
Let’s Get It On - Marvin Gaye
Let’s Stay Together - Al Green
Love Is In The Air - John Paul Young
Marry Me - Train
Marry You - Bruno Mars
More than Words - Extreme
Perfect - Ed Sheeran
Signed, Sealed, Delivered - Stevie Wonder
Stuck On You - Lionel Richie
Tenerife Sea - Ed Sheeran
Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran
Waiting For A Girl Like You - Foreigner
You’re Still the One - Shania Twaine
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