Ashlee cleveland biography
Ashley Cleveland (born February 2, ) is an American singer-songwriter best known as a background vocalist and gospel singer..
I accepted a part-time role as a pastoral associate and spiritual director at an Anglican church in Nashville called Church of the Redeemer.The first woman to win a Grammy Award in the Gospel Rock category and the only woman to win twice, Ashley Cleveland is up for a third Gospel Rock Grammy for "Before the Daylight's Shot," her most recent album.
"I never really set out to be a Gospel singer," Cleveland tells ChristianMusic.com.
"I really set out to be a rock star. My first record deal, with Atlantic, was a rock deal. But even my first album had songs that were embraced by Christian audiences.
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I wrote from a very transparent, revealing kind of place," Cleveland says. "People gravitated toward that."
Interrupting a music session to talk, Cleveland is recording demos of some new songs that she is writing for other singers.
After writing for herself her whole career, she says, she wanted to try writing for others.
"I never really set out to write a Gospel song, just write a good song and see where it goes," Cleveland says. Living in Nashville, she plans to shop h |