Claudia Lennear was born on Claudia Joy Offley; 1946 and is an American soul singer and educator.
18 Facts About Claudia Lennear
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Claudia Lennear was a background vocalist for various acts, including Joe Cocker, Leon Russell, and Freddie King.
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Claudia Lennear was featured in the 2013 Oscar-winning documentary 20 Feet from Stardom.
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Claudia Lennear was inducted in the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame in 2019.
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In elementary school, Claudia Lennear studied music theory and took French at St Charles Borromeo parochial school.
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Claudia Lennear made her recording debut with the group on the single "One Bad Habit", released on Dore Records in 1968.
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Claudia Lennear passed the audition and left the Superbs to become an Ikette.
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Nonetheless, Claudia Lennear recalled her time with the Turners fondly, telling The Providence Journal:.
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Claudia Lennear was part of a trio of backup singers for Delaney and Bonnie that included Rita Coolidge.
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Claudia Lennear sang back-up vocals on Joe Cocker's 1970 Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour and live album, on Leon Russell and the Shelter People, and on George Harrison's The Concert for Bangla Desh.
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In 1973, Claudia Lennear released her first and only solo album for Warner Bros.
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Claudia Lennear had a bit part in the film Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, playing the secretary who asks Clint Eastwood's character for his Social Security number.
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Claudia Lennear appeared in the August 1974 issue of Playboy magazine in a pictorial entitled "Brown Sugar".
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Claudia Lennear appeared in the Academy Award-winning documentary 20 Feet from Stardom, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
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At the Lockn' Festival on September 11,2015, Claudia Lennear performed with the Tedeschi Trucks Band, Rita Coolidge, Leon Russell, and other alumni from the 1970 Joe Cocker Mad Dogs and Englishmen Tour in a memorial concert for Cocker.
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In 2006, Claudia Lennear received degrees in French literature and art history from Pitzer College.
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Claudia Lennear began teaching first in high school and then at Mt.
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In 2019, Claudia Lennear was inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame.