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Cleveland Francis is an American country music singer, songwriter, and cardiologist.
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'From Where I Stand' compilation offers a foundation for Black progress in country music

In 1992, Dr. Cleve Francis, a 47-year-old Black singer, songwriter and cardiologist, was a Top 10 Country Music Television video countdown charting performer.

Three decades later, Rissi Palmer, a 42-year-old Black female country artist, is a special correspondent for CMT's Hot 20 countdown.

When time presents Black advancement in country's mainstream industry as a flat circle, progression's logical straight-line evolution feels impossible.

Twice in the past 25 years, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum has, via the now re-released 82-song collection "From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music," created what it describes in a press statement as a "multifaceted, educational initiative" aimed at evolving past this notion.

Francis, one of the key architects of the collection's 1998 inception, referred to it in a 1995 Billboard editorial as "the relationship between the country music industry and African-Americans" representing "one of the most interesting paradoxes in mus

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Celebrated cardiologist and barrier-breaking musician Dr. Cleveland “Cleve” Francis Jr. M.A. ’69 will welcome William & Mary’s new students to campus on Aug. 28 as part of the university’s Opening Convocation ceremony.

Held in the Wren Yard, the event coincides with the first day of undergraduate classes and serves as the official kickoff to the academic year. This year’s ceremony, which begins at 7:15 p.m., will also usher in the final semester of the Year of the Arts celebration.

An acclaimed Nashville artist who recorded his first album while in graduate school at William & Mary, Francis is a fitting speaker for the ceremony. In the spirit of the university’s ampersand, he found success in two seemingly disparate fields while also looking for opportunities to embody the university’s values of service and belonging. He has won multiple awards, including several for his efforts to recognize and support Black professionals in both music and medicine. He was featured on the cover of the W&M Alumni Magazine in 2023.

“Cleve Francis’ career is classic William &

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Cleve Francis

American singer-songwriter (born 1945)

Musical artist

Cleveland Francis (born April 22, 1945) is an American country music singer, songwriter, and cardiologist. Active since the late 1960s, Francis has recorded a total of nine albums, including three for Liberty Records. He has charted four times on BillboardHot Country Songs, most successfully with "You Do My Heart Good" in 1992.

Biography

Francis began his music career as a folk and blues singer and songwriter in the late 1960s while still a graduate student at the College of William & Mary, where he graduated with a Master of Arts degree in 1969.^[3] He attended medical school at the Medical College of Virginia (now Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine), eventually becoming a cardiologist. However, in the late 1980s, he switched his focus to country music, signing first to Playback Records. His debut country album Last Call for Love was released that year. The album included a single titled "Love Light", which was also made into a music video.^[4]

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