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Cleavant Derricks

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Actor trivia Cleavant Derricks began his career as a Nashville gospel songwriter. With his father, he wrote the gospel album Satisfaction Guaranteed. He was the musical director and composer for the musical When Hell Freezes Over I'll Skate. Derricks went to New York City to study acting with Vinette Carrol at the Urban Arts Theatre. He received rave reviews for his performance in her Broadway shows, including But Never Jam Today. He also won a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for creating the role of James "Thunder" Early in Dreamgirls.

Top songs

  1. Fake Your Way To The Top - Dreamgirls/Broadway/Original Cast Version
  2. I Meant You No Harm - Dreamgirls/Broadway/Original Cast Version
  3. Driving Down The Strip - Dreamgirls/Broadway/Original Cast Version
  4. The Rap - Dreamgirls/Broadway/Original Cast Version
  5. Firing Of Jimmy - Dreamgirls/Broadway/Original Cast Version
  6. I Meant You No Harm
  7. The Rap
  8. Fake Your Way To The Top
  9. Driving Down The Strip
  10. Firing Of Jimmy
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  1. Once Upon A Time
  2. Fake Your Way To The Top (with Loretta Devine, Jennifer Holliday, and Sheryl Lee Ralph)
  3. Firing Of Jimmy (with Ben Harney and Loretta Devine)
  4. Driving Down The Strip (Dreamgirls/Broadway/Original Cast Version)
  5. The Rap (Dreamgirls/Broadway/Original Cast Version)
  6. I Meant You No Harm (Dreamgirls/Broadway/Original Cast Version)
  7. I Mean You No Harm
  8. Christmas Makes Me Cry
  9. Remmy's Slide
  10. Heart Behind These Hands
  11. Once Upon A Time - Reprise
  12. Love Is For Sale
  13. Magic Man
  14. A Good Crowd Goin'...
  15. Fake Your Way To The Top (Dreamgirls/Broadway/Original Cast Version)
  16. Not A Sound
  17. A Witness To History
  18. Standing In The Need Of Love
  19. Fake Your Way To The Top (with Jennifer Holliday, Loretta Devine, and Sheryl Lee Ralph)
  20. Creating Once Upon A Time
  21. Thank You, Sir
  22. Scene One
  23. Incident In A Pleasant Grove
  24. A Matter Of Time
  25. Pain In the Walls
  26. Missing You
  27. Crusin' L.A.
  28. She Was The One
  29. Just a Little Talk with Jesus
  30. Firing Of Jimmy (Dreamgirls/Broadway/Original Cast Version)
  31. Brooklyn Grew Up
  32. Heart Behind These Hands - Reprise
  33. Cruisin' L.A.
  34. Magic Man - Reprise
  35. Asylum: Stolen Angel
  36. We'll Soon Be Done With Troubles and Trials
  37. Family
  38. Cleavant Derricks: Beginnings - Cruisin' LA
  39. "Better Get Off Of Me"
  40. Better Get Off Of Me
  41. The Rap (OBC Dreamgirls)
  42. Driving Down The Strip [Dreamgirls/Broadway/Original Cast Version]
  43. Cry Like a Man
  44. I Meant You No Harm - The Rap - Firing Of Jimmy (with Ben Harney and Loretta Devine)
  45. I Meant You No Harm (OBC Dreamgirls)
  46. Fake Your Way To The Top [Dreamgirls/Broadway/Original Cast Version]
  47. Cleavant Derricks: Beginnings - Remmy's Slide
  48. I Meant You No Harm [Dreamgirls/Broadway/Original Cast Version]
  49. The Rap [Dreamgirls/Broadway/Original Cast Version]
  50. She Was the One*
  51. Cleavant Derricks: Beginnings - Pain In The Walls
  52. Fake Your Way To The Top (OBC Dreamgirls)
  53. Cleavant Derricks: Beginnings - A Matter Of Time
  54. Fake Your Way To The Top (with Loretta Devine, Jennifer Holiday, and Sheryl Lee Ralph)
  55. A Good Crowd Goin'
  56. Firing Of Jimmy [Dreamgirls/Broadway/Original Cast Version]
  57. Cruisin' LA
  58. Cleavant Derricks: Beginnings - Incident In A Pleasant Grove
  59. Drivin' Down the Strip [*]
  60. The Dutch Oven
  61. Cleavant Derricks: Beginnings - Standing In The Need Of Love
  62. Cleavant Derricks: Beginnings - She Was The One
  63. Firing Of Jimmy (OBC Dreamgirls)
  64. Once Upon A Time (Reprise)
  65. 12 I Meant You No Harm
  66. It's All Over (with Jennifer Holliday, Deborah Burrell, Ben Harney, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Loretta Devine, and Obba Babatunde) - And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going
  67. 'Better Get Off Of Me'
  68. Fake Your Way To The Top (with Loretta Devine, Jennifer Holiday, Sheryl Lee Ralph)
  69. 13 The Rap
  70. Firing Of Jimmy (with Ben Harney, Loretta Devine)
  71. 02 Fake Your Way to the Top
  72. Fake Your Way To The Top (Jennifer Holliday, Loretta Devine, and Sheryl Lee Ralph)
  73. Love Is For Sale (Miami Vice s2)
  74. I Meant You No Harm [Original Cast Version]
  75. Jimmy's Rap
  76. Cadillac Car
  77. The Strip
  78. The Java Jive: He Must Be Dreaming (Part II)
  79. Dreamgirls: I Meant You No Harm
  80. Dreamgirls: The Rap
  81. The Rap [Original Cast Version]
  82. Driving Down The Strip [Original Cast Version]
  83. cruisinla
  84. Driving Down the Strip [*]
  85. Magic Man (Reprise)
  86. 08 - Driving Down The Strip
  87. Fake Your Way To The Top (Cleavant Derricks with Jennifer Holliday, Loretta Devine, and Sheryl Lee Ralph)
  88. I Meant No Harm
  89. Cleavant Derricks: Beginnings - Missing You
  90. Driving Down The Strip [Dreamgirls/Broadway/Original Cast Version]/Dreamgirls/Broadway/Original Cast Version

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