Cleavant Derricks (songwriter)
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Cleavant Derricks (songwriter)
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Reverend Cleavant Derricks was a pastor and choir director at a number of black Baptist churches. He studied at Cadek Conservatory of Music in Chattanooga, A & I State University and American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville. At age 21, he directed a gospel choir of more than 100 voices in Washington, D.C. at the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church. Cleavant Derricks counted among his friends many well-known artists, one of which was Mahalia Jackson. He pastored churches throughout Tennessee
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American pastor, choir director (1910–1977)
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2023-11-02T05:45:28Z
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