Thomas Holiday Jr. (born March 31, 1985) is an American operatic countertenor. His repertoire focuses on the Baroque and contemporary composers, including staged opera and opera in concert, works for voice and orchestra, and experimental mixed-media. He has participated in several world premieres. He has performed with several opera companies in the United States, toured with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and sung in Shanghai and several European cities. He also sings gospel, pop, and jazz; he was a contestant on season 19 of NBC's The Voice, a vocal competition television series.

Holiday was born in 1985 in Rosenberg, Greater Houston, in Fort Bend County, Texas, to John Holiday, Sr., a welder, and Waverly A. Holiday, a homemaker, who sang and played clarinet. His maternal grandmother, Sandra Mathis Franklin, was the pianist and music director at Missionary Baptist Church. He taught himself to play piano by imitating her, and later the organ. While only 6 or 7 years old he sang solos in church and at Travis Elementary School. He won a spot in the Fort Bend Boys Choir, which led to appearances as a treble soloist in the Houston Symphony's performances of Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust with Denyce Graves in the role of Marguérite. He later said, "I'd never seen anyone who looked like me doing what she did. I'd never thought of being an opera singer. To tell the truth, I didn't know that world even existed. I decided that was what I wanted to do.Holiday graduated from Lamar Consolidated High School in Rosenberg. For two of his high school years he was the first chair tenor in the All-State Mixed Choir sponsored by the Texas Music Educators Association.The University Interscholastic League designated him one of the Most Outstanding Performers in Texas.

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