Damon Thomas is Kim Kardashian's ex-husband. Not a lot
of people know that, but it's true:
A little known fact about Kim Kardashian is that she has
been married before. She use to be married to record
producer Damon Thomas. The two were married for four
years before splitting in 2004.
Damon Thomas might not be famous for that but he's
reawsonably well known as a music producer:
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Damon Thomas
Some people seem destined to do certain things. Damon
Thomas, one-half of the multi-platinum production duo the
Underdogs, seemed destined to spend his life making
music. Thomas, a Kansas City native and pianist since
age five, has been a songwriter most of his life, showing
glimpses of his talent even at an early age. He knew it too.
In fact, when his mother gave him the choice of recording
equipment or a car for his 16th birthday, he instantly
jumped on the equipment and has never looked back. By
age 18, he had moved out to Los Angeles, and working on
a variety of projects, hoping to catch a break.
Mainstream work came knocking on his door with work on
Brandy's self-titled debut album, and Damon found himself
co-writing "I'm Yours" for the 4x platinum set. A year later,
he began working with recording artist and super-producer
Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, and continued to develop
his musical abilities as a songwriter as one of Face's
writing partners.
The payoff was a series of Top Ten songwriting
collaborations, including "These Are The Times" by Dru
Hill, "Most Girls" by Pink and "Never Gonna Let You Go"
by Faith Evans, which peaked at #1 on Billboard's Hot
R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart in 1999. He also sat at the
boards for an array of artists from Gladys Knight to 2Pac,
and was in fact the last producer to work with 2Pac before
his death in 1996.
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Despite all of his success, he soon felt that moving onto
other projects was the next step, and in 2001 he called
fellow camp writer Harvey Mason, Jr. about working
together on a track. The two had met a few years earlier
when Damon approached Rodney Jerkins' Darkchild
Entertainment team about working on a track together,
and he remembered Mason's work for the likes of Toni
Braxton and Brian McKnight. Mason too was ready to step
out from being a camp writer, so Thomas proposed a
collaboration. The finished product was 2001's "I Like
Them Girls," the lead single from Tyrese's 2000 Watts
album.
What had originally been planned as a single collaboration
soon became a songwriting machine, as the duo of
Thomas and Mason began working with a clientele that
included pop sensations B2K and Stacie Orrico, and R&B
veteran Brian McKnight. Their songs soon enough caught
the eye of BMG North America CEO Clive Davis, who at
the time had left his position at Arista Records to start his
own label, J Records. He enlisted the Underdogs to
contribute a track to the J's first artist, Olivia, and that was
the first in a series of projects for Davis' imprint. In 2002,
Tyrese signed with J, and the Underdogs ended up
contributing over half of the tracks for his gold-certified I
Wanna Go There album. That year, Davis, who had just
finished showcasing Alicia Keys to the world, introduced
his newest prodigy, 15-year old Mario, and when it came
time to produce Mario's debut, he called on-who else-
Thomas and Mason. They offered up three tracks, and
Mario's self-titled album went gold.
2003 was the Underdogs' biggest year yet with the
addition of their high-profile work with first-season
American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson, and they contributed
two songs to the double-platinum debut. When Ruben
Studdard won the second season, Thomas found himself
working with a familiar face-Babyface, that is-on Ruben's
first single, "Flying Without Wings," which was produced
by Face and the Underdogs. After that hit Top Ten status,
the Underdogs had repeat success with "Sorry 2004,"
which pushed the album to double-platinum status.
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The year ended with Thomas' first-ever Grammy
nomination, for Album of the Year, with the Underdogs
having worked on Justin Timberlake's nominated debut
Justified. Though Outkast eventually won the award, the
nomination was a great way to cap a year the Underdogs
hope to eclipse in 2004.
Thomas and his partner have logged studio time with
familiar faces Tyrese, Mario, and Studdard, while working
on new projects by Donnell Jones, Omarion, Avant,
Marques Houston, and Craig David. Also in the works are
tracks for industry veterans Charlie Wilson, Toni Braxton,
Babyface, and the Backstreet Boys and emerging stars
Houston, JoJo, and American Idol's third-season winner
Fantasia. If that wasn't enough, the Underdogs recently
signed an exclusive label deal with Davis' J Records, and
are working on the debut release of their first artist, Luke &
Q, while continuing to take on projects from a who's who
list of pop and urban music's finest. It seems like Damon's
decisions have been paying off, ever since his mother's
original proposal.
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on-thomas_profile.html
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