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(b. 13 September 1941 in Surrey, England), musician, composer, and lead singer of the rock fusion group Blood, Sweat, and Tears.

Born in Great Britain during the most trying days of World War II, Clayton-Thomas was the son of Fred Thomsett, a Canadian serving in the British army, and his wife, Freda, a former music hall performer and native of England.

(Originally called David Henry Thomsett, Clayton-Thomas purportedly changed his name in the mid-1960s to help escape a troubled past.) In 1944 Clayton-Thomas and his mother immigrated to Canada, where they took up residence in the remote Amich Lake region of Ontario.

A year later, the father joined them. At the age of fourteen, Clayton-Thomas dropped out of school and subsequently moved out of his parents' home to find work and to escape a strained, and oftentimes violent, relationship with his father.

For the next few years, he lived from hand to mouth, toiling in mining and logging camps; sleeping in parke