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Claudia Lennear (Claudia Joy Offley) was born on 1946 in Providence, Rhode Island, U.S., is an American singer. Discover Claudia Lennear's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?

Popular As Claudia Joy Offley
Occupation Singer, teacher
Age 78 years old
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Born 1946
Birthday 1946
Birthplace Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
Nationality Rhode Island

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1946

Claudia Lennear (born Claudia Joy Offley; 1946) is an American soul singer and educator.

Lennear began her performing with the Superbs before becoming an Ikette in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue.

She was also a background vocalist for various acts, including Joe Cocker, Leon Russell, and Freddie King.

1964

During her senior year at Hope High School, her stepfather retired from the Navy and she moved to Pomona, California with her family in 1964.

After graduating from high school, Lennear enrolled in college and began fronting the Los Angeles-based soul group the Superbs.

They performed local gigs around Los Angeles.

1968

Lennear made her recording debut with the group on the single "One Bad Habit," released on Doré Records in 1968.

Through her friend, singer Sherlie Matthews, Lennear landed an audition with bandleader Ike Turner in 1968.

She passed the audition and left the Superbs to become an Ikette.

"He [Ike Turner] was a terrific business person, very disciplined, and he was a visionary," she said.

Lennear was with Ike & Tina Turner for a few years until she had a spat with Tina Turner.

However, Lennear recalls her time with the Turners fondly, telling The Providence Journal: "Without Ike and Tina, I'd probably be 20 miles from stardom, not 20 feet....they taught me how to perform, how to work with other singers and musicians. Ike taught me how to support Tina on stage. And Tina taught me how to present myself....During the three years I was an Ikette, I never witnessed any physical abuse."

1969

In 1969, Lennear dated Mick Jagger when Ike & Tina Turner were the opening act for the Rolling Stones on their American tour.

1970

After leaving the Ikettes in 1970, Lennear worked with many acts including Humble Pie and Joe Cocker.

She was part of a trio of backup singers for Delaney and Bonnie, that also included Rita Coolidge.

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.

1971

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.

1973

She released her only solo album in 1973.

In 1973, Lennear released her first and only solo album for Warner Bros. Records entitled Phew!.

1974

She 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.

Lennear appeared in the August 1974 issue of Playboy magazine in a pictorial entitled "Brown Sugar."

2013

Lennear was featured in the 2013 Oscar-winning documentary 20 Feet from Stardom.

Lennear appeared in the Academy Award-winning documentary 20 Feet from Stardom (2013), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

After the success of the film, David Bowie contacted Lennear and offered to write songs for her next project.

2014

Since 2014, Lennear has performed and recorded in Los Angeles with The New Ash Grove Players with S S Jones & Claudia Lennear.

2015

They have performed at the McCabes Guitar Shop, The Coffee Gallery, the Pasadena Pavilion for the Performing Arts, and The Improv At the Lockn' Festival 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 Cocker.

Lennear received degrees in French literature and art history from Pitzer College.

She began teaching first in high school and then at Mt. San Antonio College, where she teaches French, Spanish, English and remedial math.

2019

She was inducted in the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame in 2019.

Lennear was born Claudia Joy Offley at Providence Lying-In Hospital in Rhode Island.

Her last name was changed after her mother married Leo V. Lennear, a Navy man stationed in Newport.

She grew up in different neighborhoods in Providence.

Although raised a Catholic, her grandmother taught her to sing gospel songs as a child.

In elementary school, Lennear studied music theory and took French at St. Charles Borromeo parochial school.

Her career goal was to become a translator at the United Nations.

She also took private piano lessons.

In high school, she was in the chorale program.

As a teenager she listened to Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Carla Thomas, and Ike & Tina Turner.

In 2019, Lennear was inducted in the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame.