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Black Supermodel Pat Cleveland Is Still the Star of the Catwalk at 71 (Het Parool - Amsterdam)
I wanted to share this great article with you. The article talks about Pat Cleveland's New Song " I'm Falling In Love" from Maurice Lynch Music. The article was translated from German so somethings are backwards..... Enjoy.
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At 71, Pat Cleveland, the legendary superstar of the catwalk, is still a hot model. She will release a jazz album this year and is working with actor and producer Jamie Foxx on the film version of her life.
he just cuddled with local llama Michelle. Sweetheart, Pat Cleveland says with still childish enthusiasm over the phone from a Buddhist center in the mountains near Lake Maggiore. She's been coming here for twenty years. In her years running a modeling agency, she lived by the lake. Before that, she was the uncrowned queen of the catwalk. Renowned for her energy, she pirouetted the catwalk and brought the clothes to life while dancing. It made her deeply loved by several generations.
Paradise
She has managed to survive in an industry obsessed with youth. At 71, she is still a sought-after model. She recently shot a beauty campaign for Valentino's socials in Paris together with daughter Anna, also a model. After the interview with this newspaper, she flies home to New Jersey for a suitcase change, followed by a commercial shoot in Palm Springs. A day later, she meets in Los Angeles with producers Jamie Foxx and Datari Turner about the film script she wrote based on her life, previously described in her autobiography Walking with the muses.† Cleveland hopes to get young director Kira Kelly on board. Corinne Foxx, the 28-year-old daughter of actor and producer Jamie Foxx, is likely to play a young Pat. “The timing is right, I want young people to remember that despite the limitations of today, there is a lot of freedom. That you – whoever you are – can still pursue your dreams.”
She has never done anything different herself, this year she is releasing a jazz album. The song Falling in love was recently featured in the new collection video by couturier Ronald van der Kemp, who had flown her to Amsterdam. “I love Ronald's clothes, and so beautiful, the recordings in the magical Paradiso. It was so intense, my friend André Leon Talley had passed away the day before. I felt the presence of his spirit and heard him say: You go sing your song, girl . It felt like I was sending the number straight up to André. Goosebumps and tears.”
Cleveland was close with Talley, the first black editor to reach the highest echelons of fashion. “ We go way back, before all of his Vogue stuff . I helped him get his first job in New York, at Interview magazine . I loved André because he was bold, present, always talkative and cheerful. He has opened many doors for young people in the industry. Unfortunately, Thierry Mugler, another great personality, passed away shortly after André. I've known him for so long. The first time at his studio he received me in a Star Trek-overall, as if he were the captain of a spaceship. In 1984, during a show in a Paris club, he let me fall down on a rope like the Madonna, pregnant with my daughter.”
Never a dull moment
Falling in love is one of ten songs written for her by songwriter and producer Maurice Lynch Music. Recordings for the album will start in New York in March. In the 1970s Cleveland sang in various clubs in New York, in 1975 she was on Broadway in the musical Let my people come . “Only a handful of fashion friends knew about it, because at the time musicals weren't cool in fashion. And guess what: André came one evening, he had brought a load of model onions, they took a pontifical place in the front row. Typical Andre.”
She grew up in Harlem as the daughter of African American (including a dash of Native blood) artist Lady Bird Cleveland and Swedish saxophonist Johnny Johnston. Pa left the nest early, in her youth there was little money, but never a dull moment in the Lady Bird house. 'Aunt' Katherine Dunham often practiced with fellow dancers in the living room, Eartha Kitt and Billie Holliday were always at home. Just like contra-alto Marian Anderson. “She never sang at home, she said, but she wanted to sing Twinkle twinkle little star with me. Sometimes we sat in the front row at Eartha Kitt shows. I remember that one time at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, Eartha surrounded by drag queens whose hairy legs I especially remember. Eartha crawled on the floor, lay right in front of us and sangSanta baby. †
At 15, Cleveland was discovered on the subway and became one of the first successful black models, paving the way for Iman and Naomi Campbell. Women of color were banned from couture shows in the mid-1960s, but Eunice Johnson, founder of the first African-American magazine, Ebony, hired Cleveland for a show tour with a bus full of colored models and Johnson-bought couture. “Picture it: a black woman together with royalty on a couture show. Inappropriate at the time, but Mrs Johnson was the only editor who bought entire collections. She was wealthy. The young Yves Saint Laurent and Hubert de Givenchy were very grateful for her support.”
he bus often caused a stir, especially in the segregated south. Cleveland once had to run for her life when the Ku Klux Klan stood in the yard of her hotel in Little Rock, Arkansas. Complete with flaming torches. “I have experienced racism from an early age. My mother had grown up in Georgia, on vacations I spent a lot of time there with my cousins who were darker than me. In some neighborhoods people threw rocks at us. I couldn't tolerate it, picked them up and threw them back.”
Rare pearl
Europe was more open to diversity and a wider color palette, so Cleveland left for Milan and Paris in 1970. She lived with the Puerto Rican illustrator Antonio Lopez in Karl Lagerfeld's guest apartment on Rue Bonaparte. “Everyone wanted to sleep with him. He was extremely sensitive, could dance amazingly and was so handsome.” She also continued to party on Fire Island with designers Roy Halston, Calvin Klein and Andy Warhol. “Designer Stephen Burrows, illustrator Richard Bernstein and I invariably arrived by seaplane.”
She had affairs with several famous men – 'nothing special, those were the only ones available at parties, there was no dating app'. Boxer Muhammad Ali wanted to marry her, but then she had to stop wearing miniskirts. Mick Jagger was 'all fun' and Jack Nicholson was 'everything you can imagine and more'. She eventually married the Dutch photographer Paul van Ravenstein. "He's a rare gem, we've been married 38 years and just as happy."
During the Paris fashion week in April 2019, things went wrong, shortly after running a show, she was rushed to the hospital and colon cancer was discovered. Karl Lagerfeld had died a month earlier in that same American Hospital. “I didn't know that, but suddenly he stood at my bedside and told me that everything would be fine. And so it happened.”
Because her insurance wasn't valid outside the United States, her fashion friends started a crowdfunding campaign to pay the bills. It yielded one and a half tons. “I got so much love, they were all there for me. The hospital refused to admit me at first, but then some phone calls were made here and there and I got the couture treatment. I ended up having the same surgeon as Jean Paul Gaultier.”
Discrimination in the fashion world is certainly not a thing of the past, concludes Cleveland. Take the ethnic profiling of Edward Enninful, editor-in-chief of British Vogue, who was told to use the back door by a doorman at his own publisher in London in August 2020.
The same Enninful is now receiving praise on social media for his latest cover, on which the skin of models is said to have been photoshopped blacker. "Nonsense, just an artful cover, beautiful and mysterious," says the ever-positive Cleveland. “A creative expression of beauty, let's appreciate that. Edward just has to follow his gut feeling, eventually there will be room for all skin colors and everyone. Let's ignore negative people, they don't belong on the painting .”
Maurice Lynch Music: Pat Cleveland on the dance floor @ Studio 54 - 70's, 80's
Please tune in Sunday Night for “The Marc and Myra Show” on Studio 54 Radio. Pat Cleveland is the featured guest artist. The show will be presenting her new single “ I’m Falling in Love” by Maurice Lynch Music.
Enjoy Studio 54 Legends, Marc Benecke (The man behind the velvet rope) and Myra Scheer (keeper of the VIP List), who worked at the infamous club. The show still has a who’s who guest list and celebrates the best times Legendary Studio 54.
Pat Cleveland is on the favorite’s guest list at Studio 54 Radio, and you will get a peek into the seminal moment when the word fabulous was actually that and glamor was what the doctor ordered.
I would also like to personally thank Studio 54 Radio for supporting Maurice Lynch Music since 2016. If you miss Sunday Night other times are listed below and link
Marc and Myra Show Schedule
SiriusXM Channel 54 (Studio 54 Radio).
Studio 54 | SiriusXM
Sunday 10p Eastern / 7p Pacific.
Monday Midnight Eastern / 9p Pacific.
Wednesday 10p Eastern/7p Pacific.
Maurice Lynch
Producer
Maurice Lynch Music: Pat Cleveland Performing for RVDK-Ronald Van Der Kemp Haute Couture Collection
I wanted to share this incredible photo by Paul Van Ravenstein of Legendary Super-Model Pat Cleveland at Paradisoadam for a Photoshoot, Fashion Show and Performing for Fashion Designer - Ronald Van Der Kemp. Pat performed and debuted a song from her upcoming CD “I’m Falling in Love” written by me, Maurice Lynch (Executive Producer) and Producer Ray Chew and Ajaay Swindell.
The song was presented for Ronald Van Der kemp’s Haute Couture Collection for Paris Fashion Week 2022. I am so honored to have my song presented on this level and to be working with Pat Cleveland. I have always loved fashion and style and this is taking the Maurice Lynch Music Brand in the direction I was hoping for.
You can see the performance on Youtube @ WARDROBE 15 Can You Feel It? | RVDK - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__bIYaPPVRo
I am so grateful because it has opened another global door for Maurice Lynch Music & Pat Cleveland. I will be sharing more good things with you soon.
And remember……..“ Good things take time and Great things happen all at once”Maurice Lynch
Producer
Maurice Lynch Music: Pat Cleveland Debuts New Single @ Paris Fashion Week 2022
Maurice Lynch Music - Pat Cleveland 's ' New Upcoming Release " I'm Falling In Love" Debut's at Paris Fashion Week 2022 with " Designer - Ronald Van Der Kemp....
Legendary Super-Model and Singer - Pat Cleveland Debut's her single " I'm Falling In Love"
Amsterdam Based Designer Ronald Van Der Kemp introduced his Fall/2022 Collection with models strutting the catwalk to the sound of the ultimate catwalk Queen Pat Cleveland performing her new single "I'm Falling in Love" by Songwriter and Producer Maurice Lynch.
Lynch stated " I'm so proud of Pat her music has really taken off. We are releasing Pat's New EPK later this year. Designer Ronald Van Der Kemp heard the song and we arranged for RDVK to Debut it before it's official release date".
This song has also been selected for the soundtrack of and upcoming Fashion Documentary and Cleveland has another song that will be featured in an upcoming animated film and audio book.
Performance Video Link - WARDROBE 15 Can You Feel It? | RVDK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__bIYaPPVRo
Maurice Lynch Music
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Pat Cleveland - Tonight Josephine - Available Now on all Digital Platforms
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Alyson Williams - Summer Nights In Harlem & The Romance of You - Are Available Now on all Digital Platforms
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Maurice Lynch Music: Remembering Trailblazer & Fashion Icon Andre Leon Talley
I wanted to share this picture that was take in New York City @ The Apple Launch in SoHo in New York City for – “The Times of Bill Cunningham” Film.
Andre was always gracious to me whenever I saw him and he loved my song “Tonight Josephine” sang by Legendary Super-Model Ms. Pat Cleveland. That was featured in the film. I will never forget how excited Andre would become whenever Pat Cleveland walked into the room.
Pictured- Bethann Hardison, Carol Dietz, Susan Francis, Andre Leon Talley, Edward Wilkerson, Paul Van Ravenstein , Edward Wilkerson, Mark Bozek, Pat Cleveland & Maurice Lynch.
Andre will always be remembered for his class, iconic style and grace… Rest in Peace.
Maurice Lynch
Producer
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Alyson Williams - Summer Nights In Harlem & The Romance of You - Are Available Now on all Digital Platformshttps://songwhip.com/alyson-williams/summer-nights-in-harlem
http://www.mauricelynchmusic.com/alysonwilliamsjazz/
Pat Cleveland - Tonight Josephine - Available Now on all Digital Platforms
https://music.apple.com/us/album/tonight-josephine/1122370887?i=1122371081
http://mauricelynchmusic.com/tonightjosephine-patcleveland/
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Maurice Lynch Music: Maurice Lynch, Tony Terry, Alyson Williams & Ray Chew
I am so excited that my dear Friend & Confidante Alyson Williams is on the road to a full recovery. I wanted to share this picture because it was the last picture Alyson took before her illness.
After a recording session with myself, Tony Terry, Alyson Williams and the incomprable Ray Chew. I am working on new songs for both artist, and a duet with Tony & Alyson. We had such a great late night session filled with laughter, incredible singing and celebrating the Holiday.
After a great session we headed back to NYC. After saying my goodbyes to Alyson. Little did I know that she would be strickend with Covid a few days later.
I received a call that Alyson was being rushed to the hospital. Once there she was rushed to ICU. My whole world shifted to a place that I was raised with and that's the Power of Prayer. I reached out to my Family and Friends to PRAY because I was not ready for my dearest Alyson to leave us.
I checked on her daily and we have arrive here today with her home and headed to a full recovery. Prayer is one of the greatest armor's you can have.
Let's keep her in Prayer & Happy New Year,
Maurice Lynch
Producer
Maurice Lynch Music: "Prayer Is The Best Armor Against All Trials"
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Producer
Maurice Lynch Music: Wishing Everyone a Happy Holiday and a Joyful New Year
Happy Holidays,
Maurice Lynch
Producer
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Alyson Williams - Summer Nights In Harlem & The Romance of You - Are Available Now on all Digital Platforms
https://songwhip.com/alyson-williams/summer-nights-in-harlem
http://www.mauricelynchmusic.com/alysonwilliamsjazz/
Pat Cleveland - Tonight Josephine - Available Now on all Digital Platforms
https://music.apple.com/us/album/tonight-josephine/1122370887?i=1122371081
http://mauricelynchmusic.com/tonightjosephine-patcleveland/
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Ms. Alyson Williams with the Legendary Count Basie Orchestra @ The Apollo Theater in N.Y.C.
I wanted to share this snapshot of sheet music and set list from Alyson Williams at The Harlem Cultural Festival 2021 at The Apollo Theater in Harlem. First produced in 1969 and brought back to the world famous Apollo Theater on November 28th 2021.
The night really captured the spirit of the festival's creator Tony Lawrence and the original vision for the Harlem Cultural Festival...Alyson Williams performed my song " Summer Nights In Harlem" with The Grammy Award Winning Count Basie Orchestra under the direction of Scotty Barnhart.
A special thanks to Scotty Barnhart for creating an incredible orchestral arrangement " Summer Nights In Harlem"... and to the incredible vocals of Ms Alyson Williams.
Alyson Williams - Summer Nights In Harlem & The Romance of You - Are Available Now on all Digital Platforms
https://songwhip.com/alyson-williams/summer-nights-in-harlem
http://www.mauricelynchmusic.com/alysonwilliamsjazz/
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Happy Thanksgiving from Maurice Lynch Music
This Thanksgiving Day...... I want to thank everyone who has supported Maurice Lynch Music. I would like to thank my team who keeps our music business moving forward...I am so grateful for a successful year inspite of working thru a pandemic. Giving thanks for all the blessings that have come our way. Please be safe and remember............
"Once you realize your worth opportunities will overtake you" .
-Maurice Lynch
