Joshua T. Berglan's Gratitude:unfiltered

On this Gratitude:UnFiltered, founding member of the Grammy Award Winning group, Arrested Development Arrested Development, Speech! Speech was born Todd Thomas in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The youngest of parents Robert & Patricia Thomas. He grew up on two sides of life: the ghetto of Milwaukee (one of the nation’s roughest cities for African Americans) and (Wauwatosa) Milwaukee’s suburbia. Speech learned how to draw from the pains and beauty of both. He would absorb the plights of his people and yet the retreat of middle class blacks to primarily white neighborhoods. Speech experienced hardcore racism as a young boy. He also lost his grandmother to a heart attack and his older brother, Terrence Thomas to an Asthma attack all within the same week. Through God’s help, he ultimately learned how to recalibrate his inner anger through constructive and dynamic music. To celebrate the lives of those he lost. Speech wrote the song Tennessee as a dedication to his family. In the early nineties Speech and his m