Sunday Speaker - Rev. Chris Van Cleave
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About the Speaker:
After more than 45 years within the creative and performing arts, CHRIS VAN CLEAVE is still a prolific and eclectic composer. Using an acoustic guitar, his strong melodic voice, and a life-rich lyrical landscape, his compositions are nearing one thousand. They defy easy categorization to include folk, rock, country, jazz, R&B, reggae and musical theater.
In addition to his initial major label releases on Paramount Records with Laura Branigan and Walker Daniels (original lead in Hair), Van Cleave has independently produced eight albums of his original music, with his latest released in July 2019.
As an actor-singer, Van Cleave has starred in Hair; in two national tours of Jesus Christ Superstar, playing the role of Jesus, throughout the States and Canada. He also played leading roles in Les Miserables and Chess in London West End theaters and has been featured in many other musicals in the States, such as Man of La Mancha, Sweeney Todd, Pirates of Penzance, Kismet, Trouble in Tahiti, etc. In film and television, Chris has had featured roles in Killing Kennedy, The Secret Lives of Charles Lindbergh, The Untold Stories of the Navy Seals, Legends & Lies , and Eyes of the Roshi.
As a singer-songwriter-guitarist, Van Cleave has performed in most of the United States (including Hawaii), the Virgin Islands, Canada, Great Britain, Norway, and The Netherlands. He has opened for Kansas, Poco, Eric Burdon, Leon Russell, and Buckwheat Zydeco. As a recording artist and songwriter, he has collaborated with many, including Suzi Quatro, Jim McCarty (Yardbirds), and Barry Mason (writer of hits for Tom Jones and Englebert Humperdink).
As a composer and script writer, Van Cleave has written the script and music for two musicals: Troubadour Knight and Presence, and co-written two others by creating the music for The Davidson Affair, written by Paul Solomon, and latterly Starboy, in collaboration with the script writer, Ray Shell.
Chris wrote the song and initiated the concept for a documentary project called Not Forgotten which focuses on the over 1600 unaccounted-for Americans from the Vietnam War. He was invited to perform this song in the NYC Veterans Day Parade (5oth Anniversary) and at The Ride Home in Americas, GA - one of the largest gatherings for former POW, MIA, and families of the unaccounted-for since WW2.
After more than 45 years within the creative and performing arts, CHRIS VAN CLEAVE is still a prolific and eclectic composer. Using an acoustic guitar, his strong melodic voice, and a life-rich lyrical landscape, his compositions are nearing one thousand. They defy easy categorization to include folk, rock, country, jazz, R&B, reggae and musical theater.
In addition to his initial major label releases on Paramount Records with Laura Branigan and Walker Daniels (original lead in Hair), Van Cleave has independently produced eight albums of his original music, with his latest released in July 2019.
As an actor-singer, Van Cleave has starred in Hair; in two national tours of Jesus Christ Superstar, playing the role of Jesus, throughout the States and Canada. He also played leading roles in Les Miserables and Chess in London West End theaters and has been featured in many other musicals in the States, such as Man of La Mancha, Sweeney Todd, Pirates of Penzance, Kismet, Trouble in Tahiti, etc. In film and television, Chris has had featured roles in Killing Kennedy, The Secret Lives of Charles Lindbergh, The Untold Stories of the Navy Seals, Legends & Lies , and Eyes of the Roshi.
As a singer-songwriter-guitarist, Van Cleave has performed in most of the United States (including Hawaii), the Virgin Islands, Canada, Great Britain, Norway, and The Netherlands. He has opened for Kansas, Poco, Eric Burdon, Leon Russell, and Buckwheat Zydeco. As a recording artist and songwriter, he has collaborated with many, including Suzi Quatro, Jim McCarty (Yardbirds), and Barry Mason (writer of hits for Tom Jones and Englebert Humperdink).
As a composer and script writer, Van Cleave has written the script and music for two musicals: Troubadour Knight and Presence, and co-written two others by creating the music for The Davidson Affair, written by Paul Solomon, and latterly Starboy, in collaboration with the script writer, Ray Shell.
Chris wrote the song and initiated the concept for a documentary project called Not Forgotten which focuses on the over 1600 unaccounted-for Americans from the Vietnam War. He was invited to perform this song in the NYC Veterans Day Parade (5oth Anniversary) and at The Ride Home in Americas, GA - one of the largest gatherings for former POW, MIA, and families of the unaccounted-for since WW2.
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