Grady Thomas (born January 5, 1941, in Newark, New Jersey, United States) is a former member of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic.
[1][2] Thomas started out in the late 1950s as one of The Parliaments, a doo wop barbershop quintet led by George Clinton.
[3] In 1977, Thomas (along with original Parliaments Fuzzy Haskins and Calvin Simon), left Parliament-Funkadelic after financial and management disputes with Clinton.
In 1981, the trio caused confusion when they formed a new band, and released an album called Connections and Disconnections under the name Funkadelic.
After a return stint with George Clinton and the P-Funk Allstars in the 1990s, Thomas, along with original Parliaments bass vocalist Ray Davis (musician), Haskins, and Simon founded "Original P" in 1998, with whom Thomas currently performs.