Ashley Cleveland
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Ashley Cleveland
- Genres: Gospel
Biography
The earthy Christian rocker Ashley Cleveland began her career during the mid-1980s as a Nashville session vocalist, singing on well over 200 records before cutting her own demo tape with drummer/producer Craig Krampf. The recording won her a contract with Atlantic Records, and in 1991 Cleveland issued her debut album Big Town. She moved to the Reunion label for 1993's Bus Called Desire; for Lesson of Love, issued two years later, she earned her first Grammy award. ~ Jason Ankeny, RoviWikipedia on Answers.com:
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Ashley Cleveland
Ashley Cleveland (born 2 February 1957) is an American singer/songwriter perhaps best known as a background vocalist and Grammy-winning gospel singer. Ashley Cleveland was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. She was married to Kenny Greenberg on 27 April 1991 and has three children.
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Career
Her career includes vocal contributions to more than 300 albums, including the Dove Award winning albums Songs From the Loft (1994), The Jesus Record by Rich Mullins' and A Ragamuffin Band, 1998.
As part of John Hiatt's band, Ashley Cleveland has also made several widely-seen television appearances including, Austin City Limits, Late Night with David Letterman, The Arsenio Hall Show and Saturday Night Live.
Steve Winwood contributed duet vocals and played the Hammond B3 organ for the song "I Need Thee Every Hour" on Cleveland's 2005 album, Men and Angels Say.
Awards and recognition
As the Grammy Award's first female nominee in the Best Rock Gospel category, Ashley Cleveland won this award in 1996 for her album Lesson of Love, in 1999 for You Are There, and in 2008 for Before the Daylight's Shot. She is the only artist to be nominated three times and to win three times in this category.
In 2010, God Don't Never Change, was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Traditional Gospel Album category, bringing her total number of overall nominations to four (with three wins).
Lesson of Love also won a 1996 Nashville Music Award ("Nammy") for Best Contemporary Christian Album.
Cleveland was the only female vocalist to sing lead on a song ("Gimme Shelter") for the television special, "Stone Country: A Tribute to the Rolling Stones" on the defunct The Nashville Network (TNN).
Discography
- Big Town (Atlantic, 1991)
- Bus Named Desire (Reunion, 1993)
- Strong Hand of Love, tribute to Mark Heard, 1994
- Lesson of Love (Reunion, 1995)
- Orphans of God, tribute to Mark Heard, 1996
- You Are There (Warner, 1998, Reviews: HM Magazine,[1] The Phantom Tollbooth)
- The Jesus Record, Rich Mullins & a Ragamuffin Band, 1998
- Second Skin (204 Records, 2002, Review: The Phantom Tollbooth)
- Men and Angels Say (Rambler, 2005, Review: The Phantom Tollbooth)
- Before the Daylight's Shot (204 Records, 2006)
- God Don't Never Change (2009, Review: [1])
References
- ^ McGovern, Brian Vincent (January/February 1999). "Album Reviews: Ashley Cleveland You Are There". HM Magazine (75): 62. ISSN 1066-6923.
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