Ashley Cleveland

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Ashley Cleveland
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Ashley Cleveland in 2008
Background information
Born Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.
GenresRock, country, Christian rock
Occupation(s)Musician
Instrument(s)Vocals, guitar
Years active1991–present
Website ashleycleveland.com

Ashley Cleveland (born February 2, 1957) is an American singer-songwriter best known as a background vocalist and gospel singer. Ashley Cleveland was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. She has been married to Kenny Greenberg since April 27, 1991, and has three children.

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Career

She sang "We're Gonna Win This One" in 1987 for the Touchstone Pictures film Ernest Goes to Camp .[ citation needed ]

Her career includes vocal contributions to more than 300 albums, including the Dove Award winning albums Songs from the Loft (1994)[ citation needed ], The Jesus Record by Rich Mullins and A Ragamuffin Band, 1998.[ citation needed ]

As part of John Hiatt's band, she 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 .[ citation needed ]

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.[ citation needed ]

She has contributed to the SongwritingWith:Soldiers workshops,[ citation needed ] and is credited as a co-writer on the song "Stronger Together" on the Mary Gauthier album Rifles & Rosary Beads .

Bibliography

In 2013 she published her memoir, Little Black Sheep, in hardcover, & eBook format.[ citation needed ]

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, and 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

Albums

Appearances

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References

  1. ↑ "75 reviews". July 13, 2001. Archived from the original on July 13, 2001. Retrieved November 22, 2012.
  2. ↑ McGovern, Brian Vincent (January–February 1999). "Album Reviews: Ashley Cleveland You Are There". HM Magazine (75): 62. ISSN   1066-6923.
  3. ↑ "A Review by The Phantom Tollbooth". Tollbooth.org. Retrieved November 22, 2012.
  4. ↑ Shari Lloyd. "Ashley Cleveland – a Review of The Phantom Tollbooth". Tollbooth.org. Retrieved November 22, 2012.
  5. ↑ Shari Lloyd (March 20, 2005). "A Review of The Phantom Tollbooth". Tollbooth.org. Retrieved November 22, 2012.
  6. ↑ "Cleveland, Ashley". May 26, 2009. Retrieved April 14, 2018.
  7. ↑ "Home – Ashley Cleveland". Ashley Cleveland. Retrieved April 14, 2018.
  8. ↑ Cross Rhythms. Retrieved April 14, 2018
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