Tomás Doncker is an American musician, and the CEO of True Groove Records. In 2011

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credited him with creating a new genre, Global Soul. He is best known as the lead guitarist in

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Career

Doncker cut his teeth as a guitarist with New York

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acts including James Chance & The Contortions,

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and J. Walter Negro & The Loose Jointz among others. He is noted for touring and recording with Japanese

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musicians Sadao Watanabe and

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. This led to him to producing studio and songwriting sessions with

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, and

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. Doncker has worked with artists including

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, former Parliament Funkadelic keyboardist

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, Grammy winning producer/bassist

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, Chocolate Genius, and 2016 Grammy award nominee

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. His ongoing collaborations with

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have received massive critical acclaim. He has produced hundreds of records for independent musicians. He is the founder and CEO True Groove Records. In recent years Doncker has completed successful Chinese and European tours as a solo musician. He has also performed at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, Milwaukee

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, and New York

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. With James Chance and the Contortions he played six sold out shows at The Blue Note Tokyo in January 2016.

Discography

* ''Inside Out'' (2007) * ''Small World Part 1'' (2008) * ''Power of the Trinity'' (2011) * ''Howlin' Wolf EP" (2014)'' * ''Power of the Trinity... A Slight Return (The Global Soul Mixtape Vol. 1)'' (2014) * ''Moanin' At Midnight: The Howlin' Wolf Project'' (2014) * ''Big Apple Blues'' (2014) * ''The Mess We Made'' (2015)

References

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