Career
The Friends of Distinction was founded by Harry Elston and Floyd Butler, and beside Cleaves, it included Barbara Jean Love (plus Charlene Gibson, who replaced Love during her pregnancy).
During the 1970s, Cleaves also performed and recorded with Earth, Wind & Fire, and later with George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic.
Cleaves' godson filmmaker Armand Araujo is scheduled to begin filming her life story "Jessica Cleaves, My Friends of Disticntion" in 2013.
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