Philip Michael Thomas - the multi-talented performer best known as Detective Rico Tubbs in the iconic 1980s TV series _"Miami Vice" on his autobiography, his official web site, reading scripts, performing, writing music, and helping young performers reach the heights he has reached - and doing it all with characteristic charm, grace, vitality...and with his trademark banner, "Treasure beyond measure!" flying proudly overhead.
Has six daughters, one step-daughter, and five sons from 5 different relationships. Step-daughter, Monica. Sacha, his first born daughter with first wife Pat Thomas. Daughter Khrishna to Merria Ross. Daughters Melody and India to actress Sheila Dewindt. Daughter Chayenne and son Gabriel (A.K.A. "Philip Jr.") with Dhaima Matthews. Daughter Imaj and sons Sovereign, Sacred, Kharisma, and Noble with second wife Kassandra Thomas.
Lived with Dhaima Matthews from 1982-1986. They had 2 children.
Lived with Kassandra Thomas from 1986-1998. They have 5 children.
A bank foreclosed on his house in 1998.
(June 2002) Was awarded an undisclosed amount by an arbitrator for his work in psychic phone commercials, ending an eight-year dispute in which Thomas claimed Traffix, Inc. owed him $12 million.
Attended the University of California at Riverside, California.
Of Native-American, Irish, & African-American ancestry.
In addition to being highly creative, even bookish, PMT is gifted mechanically and can rebuild a car engine from the ground up or diagnose it merely by hearing someone describe its symptoms.
Before transferring to the University of California-Riverside, PMT attended Oakwood College, a small liberal arts institution in Huntsville, Alabama (started by the Seventh-day Adventist church), intending to become a pastor.
Was an ordained Pentecostal preacher at the age of 16.
(August 2007) Co-producer and co-creator of the smash-hit musical Sacha on Broadway, which is staged periodically in Florida and is being groomed for a national tour.
(August 2007) PMT has always loved Florida and has chosen to call The Sunshine State his home. He is hard at work on his autobiography, official web site, and writing songs for an album he may release in 2008.
Coined the acronym EGOT that is ascribed to the select few people whove individually won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award. Ironically (through 2017), the actor has never been nominated for any of these awards himself.
Was born on exactly the same day as co-star Pam Grier , May 26, 1949.
Good life is like good music. There are rests and pauses and melody and,rhythm and lyric and reason and rhyme and love that last for all time.
Music and all that it possesses is a multi-dimensional life itself. Not,just a trip, but a round trip.
Some people never live a day in a lifetime. I live a lifetime in a day.
I love encouraging people to read great books. You can travel the world,and the universe if you just go to your local library and choose a book,to read. I tell my children you must read to lead.
I will always be a gypsy, and if a woman is going to love me, she will,have to love the gypsy spirit in me. This is the thing in the past most,women have not understood. They want to embrace the physical,relationship and settle down. That means death to me. I gotta fly. .
