Name Claudia Lennear Role Singer | Movies Thunderbolt and Lightfoot Music group The Ikettes | |
Albums Phew!, Can't Sit Down... 'cos It Feels So Good: the Complete Modern Recordings Similar People Merry Clayton, Tata Vega, Lisa Fischer, Judith Hill, Darlene Love | ||
Claudia lennear sing with children
Claudia Lennear (also rendered as Linnear and Lenier when she appeared on Stephen Stills' albums) is an American soul singer.
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- Claudia lennear sing with children
- The story of backing singer claudia lennear links with jagger and bowie
- Musical career
- References
The story of backing singer claudia lennear links with jagger and bowie
Musical career
Claudia Lennear has worked with many acts including Ike and Tina Turner, Humble Pie and Joe Cocker.
She was part of a trio of backup singers for Delaney and Bonnie, that also included Rita Coolidge.
Lennear's meetings with Mick Jagger and David Bowie are often cited as inspiration for The Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar" (1971) and Bowie's "Lady Grinning Soul" (1973). NME editors Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray noted in 1981 that she was "yet to reply in song to either Mick or David". However, in a 1973 article in Rolling Stone, she was quoted as saying that she wrote the song "Not At All" "to inform Mick Jagger of his dispensability".
Claudia Lennear was one of Leon Russell's Shelter People. She sang back-up vocals on Joe Cocker's 1970 Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour and live album, on Leon Russell and the Shelter People, released in 1971 and on George Harrison's The Concert for Bangla Desh. Her lead vocal live recording of "Let It Be" from the Mad Dogs and Englishmen movie was the B side of Leon Russell's "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" single on A&M Records in 1971.
In 1973, Lennear recorded a solo album of her own (her one and only) entitled Phew!
Lennear had a bit part in the 1974 film Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, playing the secretary who asks Clint Eastwood's character for his Social Security number. She appeared in the August 1974 issue of Playboy magazine in a pictorial entitled "Brown Sugar".
She left the music industry to become a teacher of French and Spanish.
Lennear appears in the Academy Award-winning documentary 20 Feet from Stardom (2013), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
At the Lockn' Festival in Arrington, VA. on September 11, 2015, 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 Joe Cocker.