Thomson Andrews

Profile Overview

Thomson Andrews (born September 25, 1987, in Mumbai, India) is an Indian contemporary R&B, pop, funk and soul singer-songwriter, performer, recording artist, actor, TV host, and contemporary Indian Bollywood Playback singer.
Andrews began his career with Grammy and Academy Award-winning music composer A. R. Rahman in 2010, and to date has sung in numerous Bollywood and South Indian films. He is known for his involvement in music projects such as Coke Studio (India), MTV Unplugged (India) and has been featured on MTV India alongside composers such as Amit Trivedi, Clinton Cerejo, Shankar Ehsaan Loy, Pritam, Ranjit Barot and singers Neha Kakkar, Arijit Singh, Sonu Nigam, Shafqat Amanat Ali, Agnee, and Indian Ocean.
Andrews has collaborated with Indian music and film composers and directors such as Vishal Bhardwaj, Mira Nair, Vishal Shekhar, Salim Sulaiman, Ajay Atul, Hitesh Sonik, Leslie Lewis, Anu Malik, Amaal Malik, and Sohail Sen. He also toured with singer Sunidhi Chauhan for three years as a supporting performer and singer Mohit Chauhan for two years. In 2017, Andrews performed for Amazon Prime India on a music and dance reality TV show called The Remix, on which he was the finalist, along with his DJ partner NSG. Subsequently, Andrews was hired by American Idol to promote the show among Indian audiences via the Indian Broadcasting Channel ZeeCafe.
Andrews has sung for Netflix films—Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, The Christmas Chronicles 2, Ludo, Netflix animated series Centaurworld, Money Heist Season 5 promo song Jaldi Aao, and on the background score of the film Brahmāstra, directed by Ayan Mukerji. Thomson's singles and remixes are released across major Indian record labels such as "Uff Teri Ada", "Suit Suit Karda", "Hare Ram" on Tseries, "Rockstar Live" on Zee Music Company, and Happy Nagar on Times Music.
Andrews has sung on numerous Hindi dubbed Disney productions, including from the Winnie The Pooh franchise, The Little Mermaid TV series, and films Encanto, The Jungle Book 2, 2019's The Lion King and Aladdin, 2017's Beauty and the Beast, as well as Toy Story, Frozen, The Princess and the Frog and Marvel Studios's Hawkeye series on Disney+. He is the dub voice of 'Wembley' on Apple TV+'s comedy puppet series Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock and Gonger on Sesame Street.
He has been certified as a Performing Vocalist by Trinity College Of Music, London, and has briefly trained in Hindustani classical singing. Apart from live performances, he also sings on and arranges voicings for films playback songs & background scores. Andrews has sung film songs and ad jingles in several Indian languages such as Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tulu, Marathi, and Bengali. He has also done several international ad jingles for products in Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, the West Indies, and more. He also sings in foreign languages such as Swahili, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, and more.
His debut neo-soul single ' People Ain't Things was mastered by Grammy Award winning mastering engineer Reuben Cohen from Lurssen Mastering in Hollywood, California. His music has featured on national television networks like MTV Indies, VH1 India, and 9xO, as well as the radio station Radio One (India). Thomson performed for Vogue India's Women Empowerment initiative #VogueEmpower in 2014. Besides his solo accolades, projects, motown, R&B, funk music tribute concerts, and collaborations, he is part of a popular Indian a cappella ensemble called Raaga Trippin', with whom he performs live shows and creates original and cover songs.
In 2020, Andrews' musical influences and songwriting skills include the genres of pop, R&B, funk, neo-soul, blues, soul, jazz, gospel, hip-hop, opera, rock and roll, and Sufi. He also mentors new musicians via his indie music Label Throan Of Art Music, guiding them with professional singing tips onstage and in the recording studio.