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Chocolate Genius, Inc. is a loose collective of musicians centered around Marc Anthony Thompson, a singer-songwriter from New York City.

Thompson released two albums during the 1980s under his own name, and has been compared to a wide variety of musicians, including Tom Waits, Prince, Jeff Buckley, D’Angelo, Lenny Kravitz, and Terence Trent D’Arby.

He signed to V2 Records for Black Music, his 1998 debut under the name of Chocolate Genius. The album garnered a 9.0 rating from Pitchfork Media. In 2001, he released his next album, GodMusic, followed by, in 2005, a switch to Commotion Records and the release of Black Yankee Rock, produced by Craig Street. The album featured many prominent New York musicians, many of whom had appeared on his previous two records: Marc Ribot, Abe Laboriel Jr., David Stone, Glenn Patscha, Me’Shell NdegeOcello, Oren Bloedow, Yuka Honda, and the legendary Van Dyke Parks, among others.

Marc Anthony Thompson has also worked extensively in scoring film and theatre productions. He won an Obie award in sound design for A Huey P. Newton Story in 1997 and has written music for Rikers High (2005), Brother to Brother (2004), Colorvision (2004) (which he hosted in the same year), American Splendor (2003), Urbania (2000), and Twin Falls Idaho (1999). His version of The Beatles’ “Julia” was included on the soundtrack to the film I Am Sam. He recently completed a month-long residency at the Largo club in Los Angeles.
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  • Darcyyy

    it's going wrong <3

    April 2011
  • BlackBuddha1

    One person likes Chocolate Genius on FB?

    January 2011
  • pierrehazan

    New album is great although short

    October 2010
  • Jan_mag_Musik

    wow, fantastic...just heard a track on "American Splendor" (great movie) and went loocking for more. Really great.

    August 2010
  • netwaif

    A talented singer. Smooth voice. Love it.

    March 2010
  • BaronSamediFr

    Looks like there's a new album coming in February, Swansongs - check his myspace page !

    January 2010
  • BlackBuddha1

    I love him too. Hardly anyone knows who he is, and his work really says something. Black Music.

    December 2009
  • johnkieffer2

    CG is so underrated - it's ridiculous!

    January 2009
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