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Jessica Cleaves

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Birth Date:
10.12.1948
Death date:
02.05.2014
Categories:
Rock musician, Singer
Nationality:
 american
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Jessica Cleaves (December 10, 1948 – May 2, 2014) was an American singer and songwriter. Cleaves was lead singer for The Friends of Distinction in the 1960s.

  Genre R&B, pop, soul, funk

Occupations Singer, songwriter

Associated acts The Friends of Distinction,Earth, Wind & Fire, George Clinton, Parliament-Funkadelic.

Jessica Cleaves - Eyes Of A Dreamer

Earth, Wind & Fire, with Jessica Cleaves, Live in studio, 1972 (Part 1).

Early life

Jessica Cleaves was born to Mary Gladys Cleaves (née Wilkerson), a librarian, and Lane C. Cleaves II, a US Postal employee. Cleaves' paternal grandfather, Lane C. Cleaves Sr., was Presiding Bishop over Phillips Temple, CME.

Career

The Friends of Distinction was founded by Harry Elston and Floyd Butler, and beside Cleaves, it included Barbara Jean Love (plus Charlene Gibson, who replaced Love during her pregnancy).

During the 1970s, Cleaves also performed and recorded with Earth, Wind & Fire, and later with George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic.

Cleaves' godson filmmaker Armand Araujo is scheduled to begin filming her life story Jessica Cleaves, My Friends of Distinction in 2013.

Source: wikipedia.org

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