Jean Akin Cunningham was an American performer, composer, songwriter, producer, writer and host of the video based web site The Composers Corner.
12 Facts About Jeanie Cunningham
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Jeanie Cunningham toured with Lionel Richie, David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and worked closely with Ike and Tina Turner.
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Jeanie Cunningham was the co-author and voice of the ongoing children's audio book series Los Diggities, written about three rescued dogs living in Los Angeles.
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Jeanie Cunningham's music has been heard worldwide from 1986 to present, as part of several high-profile product campaigns, with corporations such as Mitsubishi, Epson, Yamaha, Toshiba, and Chevron being among the many to utilize her original works.
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In 2002, Jeanie Cunningham was commissioned to write, record and perform a tribute song to the United States in commemoration of the September 11 attacks for the country of Aruba.
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In 2014, multi-media artist Steve Maloney commissioned Jeanie Cunningham to write a song commemorating the Vietnam War veteran for Maloney's "Take Me Home Huey" project.
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Between tours as a guitarist with Lionel Richie's band and as an opening act for David Crosby, Jeanie Cunningham continued to hone her skills as a songwriter, including writing for high-profile international corporations.
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Jeanie Cunningham recorded 7 different albums both nationally and internationally.
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In 2007, after a six-year dedicated effort, Jeanie Cunningham completed 23 compositions for her first musical, DULA, which gives a detailed and dramatic history of the folk-song legend Tom Dooley, presenting him as an innocent man who was hung for a crime he did not commit in the years immediately following the Civil War.
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Jeanie Cunningham has been seen performing at the Sommet Center in Nashville and the New Orleans Morial Convention Center with Shaklee Corporation CEO, Roger Barnett, himself a gifted pianist and composer.
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In October 2015, Jeanie Cunningham performed at the International Expo in Milan, Italy on behalf of her alma mater, the American School in Switzerland.
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Jeanie Cunningham continued to remain active both as a performer and a teacher of "music composition with lyrical compatibility" and ukuleles to both school children and teachers.