Real name: Leroy B. Thompson

Jamaican singer and drummer.
Born Jamica, B.W.I.

Different than R&B singer/drummer Roy Thompson.

Roy was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from the City College of New York and went to Italy on a Buitoni Music Scholarship (Burton Foundation), where he majored in music and romance languages.
As soloist with The Jubilee Singers, he toured Europe, Asia and North Africa under U.S. Sponsorship. Broadway audiences have seen him in "To Late the Phalarope", "Carmen Jones", "Show Boat" and "Jamaica". Roy has wrote, arranged and recorded an album called "Ambassador of Calypso". In early 1959 he joined the vocal quartet accompanying Harry Belafonte on his national tour.
Thompson sang vocal chorus on Harry Belafonte's recordings of "Angelique-O", "Cordelia Brown", "Don't Ever Love Me", "Haiti Cherie", "Island in the Sun", "Mama Look A Bo Bo", and "Scratch, Scratch".