How to pronounce “tomkin”(verb) in English

remained the Cathedral of black music in New York nobody absolutely nobody went out and started recording records that was not familiar with the Apollo thatdidn't go there on a regular basis said Jee Tomkins a future singer from the fertile Moria area of the South Bronxwhich by 1953 had already produced local stars in the Rens and the you would go there and the setting was