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Merry Clayton
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Merry Clayton is an American soul and gospel singer and an actress. She provided a number of backing vocal tracks for major performing artists in the 1960s, most notably in her du…
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Merry Clayton is an American soul and gospel singer and an actress. She provided a number of backing vocal tracks for major performing artists in the 1960s, most notably in her duet with Mick Jagger on the Rolling Stones song "Gimme Shelter".
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2026
Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It
Movie Self
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2022
Women Who Rock
TV show Self
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2013
20 Feet from Stardom
Movie Self
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2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV show Self
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2000
A Private Affair
Movie Betty
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1999
Get Bruce!
Movie Self
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1994
Cagney & Lacey: The Return
Movie Verna Dee Jordan
- 1988
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1988
Dirty Dancing Live in Concert
Movie Herself
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1987
Maid to Order
Movie Audrey James
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1986
Nine 1/2 Weeks
Movie Background Vocal at Porno House
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1984
Blame It on the Night
Movie Merry Clayton
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1982
Cagney & Lacey
TV show Verna Dee Jordan
