Originally from Carmel CA, Thompson first began singing as a travel goal when he found that he could tour through Europe if he was in the America’s Youth in Concert chorus. He used that same travel goal by joining the UCLA Men’s Glee Club and touring Canada with the chorus during his college years. In more recent times, Thompson performed with the Monterey Peninsula Voices community chorus and a Manhattan Transfer style 4-voice group called Junction68. After he and his late husband, Joe, moved to Palm Springs in 2020, Thompson found community by becoming part of the Palm Springs Gay Men’s Chorus and Modern Men choral families and resurrected the travel/singing goal by joining the GALA Chorus at World Pride in Sydney in 2023