B. J. Thomas

Person · Open Library

Born

1942-07-08

Died

2021-05-29

Works

7

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

BE

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

519,421

Total plays

3,340,810

Billy Joe "B.J." Thomas (born August 7, 1942, died May 29, 2021) was an American popular singer. He was particularly known for his hit songs of the 1960s and 1970s, which appeared on the pop, country, and Christian music charts. His best-known recording is the Burt Bacharach/Hal David song "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head". Thomas was raised in and around Houston, Texas, graduating from Lamar Consolidated High School in Rosenberg. Before his solo career, he sang in a church choir as a teenage

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Analysis of Relative Gene Expression Data Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR and the 2−ΔΔCT Method

   · 2001 · cited 160,608x

2. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

   · 2021 · cited 76,905x

3. U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation

   · 2015 · cited 57,338x

4. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

   · 2012 · cited 49,598x

5. UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis

   · 2004 · cited 43,720x

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Key dates

Born

8 July 1942

Died

29 May 2021

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Family name

Thomas

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Hugo

Place of death

Arlington

Occupation

musician

Languages spoken

English language

Field of work

popular music

Eye colour

blue