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Thomas Henry, a.k.a. "Gator Dash", was born in 1971 in Port-au-Prince, Haïti. Soon after his birth, his parents emigrate to the United States and settle down in Brooklyn where a large haïtian community is situated. In the US, he composes for "Gougou Dolls", is also singer/composer of the group "Jolson Lips", he plays live accoustic shows for "Ten Thousand Maniacs" and does the opening show as "Gator Dash" for Iggy Pop and La Mano Negra at a festival in Buffalo (New York). In 1990, he moves to Montreal (Canada). He works at the creation of some songs with Kid Koala and arranges some tracks for him. He does a few concerts at the "Foufoune Electrique". In 1999 he arrives in France, there he sets up a recording studio in Bordeaux in which he composes his album and surrounds himself with some of the best musicians found in the Bordeaux scene, to accompany him in the interpretation of his compositions, the mixing was done by Toirès, who remixes two of Gator Dash's songs : Feeling and Gator. But he doesn't stop there, before his album is even out, he has already recorded various songs for the second album project, of which four feature Winston Makanoff; Abdou Day is programed for a recording session in may, and Killa Cartoon and Cédric (from No More Babylon) are also lined up for collaboration...