He is a musician, producer and inventor born Thomas Morgan
Robertson born in Cairo, Egypt.His father was a professor in Greek archaeology and art at Oxford
University and the London University and while he was young Thomas lived in
Greece and France as well as England.His schoolmates gave his name to him as a nickname, as he was never
without a cassette player in his hand, but this would eventually lead him
and Dolby Laboratories to come to an out-of-court agreement when he took on
the name for his professional career.Working with electronic instruments he became a "synthopop" artist
and became he keyboardist for Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club.He would then feature on albums by
the Thompson Twins and Def Leppard (under the pseudonym Booker T. Boffin),
Foreigner, in David Bowie's band at Live Aid and write songs for other
artists including "Magic's Wand" for Whodini and "New Toy" for Lene Lovich.Aside
from his session work for numerous artists that include Prefab
Sprout, Joni Mitchell, Joe
Walsh, Ryiuchi Sakamoto, Peter
Gabriel, Budgie, Joan Armatrading, Stevie
Wonder
, Tata
Vega, Eddie Van Halen and many more he started to see success in his own
right when he cracked the pop charts in the UK and US with songs such as "She
Blinded Me With Science" and "Hyperactive".These could later be heard being used in TV shows such
as The Simpsons and Fame and sampled in the song "Got it
Twisted" by Mobb Deep.Moving
into the late 1980s he would perform at Depeche Mode's Rose Bowl concert
and in the rock opera The Wall by Roger Waters, which was performed
in Berlin.In the 2000s he
performed at the Soft Boys' reunion and in 2006 returned to his solo career
where he gave a series of concerts in California, which culminated in a
tour of the United States.He
had been resident in the United States but returned to the UK when he
realised his on-going popularity there and has since given a tour, released
a DVD and CD box set and recorded new material.As a composer for video games his work can be heard on
the Mind's Eye games collection, Double Switch and on Grand
Theft Auto: Vice City and in 2001 he was the music director of the TED
Conference in California.In
the world of business, he was the founder of the Headspace Company which
developed the RMF (Rich Music Format), was the CEO of Beatnik Inc., which
provided a free plug-in for the RMF and the founder of Retro Ringtones
which won "Best of Show" and "Best New Technology" at the Mobile Music
Awards in Miami in 2004.His
ringtones for mobile phones are now well known and he is the provider of
the Nokia signature theme and he is often heard speaking at conferences on
the subject.His achievements in
the world of technology were recognised in 1998 when Yahoo! Internet
Life presented him with the Lifetime Achievement in Internet Music
Award.
