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Eddie Thomas

CTL-E-0563 · Person · 1960–1980

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Eddie Thomas was the manager of Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions and co-founded Curtom Records with Mayfield in 1968; the Curtom Agency was located at 8541 S. Stoney Island Blvd.

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Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-infra-042; source research type(s): person. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

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