Jeanie Cunningham

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jeanie Cunningham
Occupation	Singer
Date Of Birth	Sep 3, 1956(1956-09-03)
Age	68
Birthplace	Los Angeles
Country	United States
Horoscope	Capricorn

Jeanie Cunningham Biography

Jeanie Cunningham is one of the most popular and richest Singer who was born on September 3, 1956 in Los Angeles, United States. Baldwin and Swift met while he was the Deputy Press Secretary for then Governor George Leader of Pennsylvania. Swift was the local news anchor for the Tri-Stateted States region. The two fell in love but David was still married although separated from his wife at the time. According to Baldwin, both he and Swift resisted intimacy due to his unresolved marital status, but on New Year’s Eve 1955-56, the two celebrated the New Year with a one-time union that would produce a baby girl exactly nine months later. Unfortunately, the unexpected pregnancy took its toll on their relationship, and the potential for scandal forced Swift to leave her life in Pennsylvania behind. Determined to keep the pregnancy secret, she and her mother took a train cross-country to Los Angeles where the two of them waited out the pregnancy. Gladys gave birth to Susan Swift on September 3, 1956 and put her up for adoption. Susan was later renamed Jean Akin Cunningham by her new adoptive parents 3 weeks later.

Her pursuit of a musical career took a front seat when, while as a boarding student attending The American School In Switzerland, a teenage Cunningham went AWOL (absent without leave) for 3 days to see Ike & Tina Turner perform in concert. Faced with 2 weeks suspension when she returned to school, she took it in stride because, as she later put it, “The night I saw Tina Turner, it was like a burning bush from God. I knew I was destined to meet her.” (The school, in spite of Cunningham’s lack of musical knowledge, later went on to present her with the annual Excellence in Music Award in 1975, and subsequently named her an “honored alumna” 35 years later as a result of her considerable achievements in music composition and performance). Following graduation in 1975, Cunningham returned to Los Angeles and hooked up with Ike & Tina Turner. A few years later, Turner’s performance of one of Cunningham’s co-written songs, “I Can Take A Little Bit Of Pain” on The Tonight Show, earned the newcomer her professional songwriting credentials.

Since 1994 she has also been the mentor, “tormentor” as she politely puts it, to four young men by the names of Peter, Pablo, Bryan, and Jonathan who are among what Cunningham considers to be “the greatest treasures” in her life. Helping them grow from “tweens” to “adults”, she takes pride in their accomplishments and has been a vocal proponent to the cause of mentoring youth. A licensed pilot, Cunningham flies the skies herself in fixed-wing single-engine aircraft, as well as logging time in helicopters such as the Hughes 300 and the Bell Jetranger 206B. On the ground she enjoys golfing, hiking, bicycling and spending time with her longtime life companion (since 1981), and now, legal wife (since 2013), Margaret, step-daughter Mia, and grandson, Rodney.

It turned out that “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree”, for in 1995 after a 20-year search, Cunningham finally located her biological parents. Her mother was Gladys Jane Swift, one of the earliest female TV news anchors in the country; Cunningham’s father, David Gilmore Baldwin III, was a former World War II aviation hero, having twice won the Distinguished Flying Cross Award. He later went on to become a newspaper journalist, then a speechwriter for the American Medical Association and various politicians.

In 1973, Jeanie’s adoptive mother, Joan Cunningham died of cirrhosis of the liver. Her adoptive father, Ralph Cunningham, remarried within 6 months of Joan’s death, and by the end of that year, Jeanie and her brother Caleb were no longer living in his and his new wife’s home. Jeanie later struck out on a personal quest to locate her biological family and discover her roots.

Jeanie Cunningham Net Worth

Jeanie Cunningham is one of the richest Singer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jeanie Cunningham 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Jean Akin Cunningham (born September 3, 1956) is an American performer, composer, songwriter, producer, writer and host of the video based web site The Composers Corner. She has toured with Lionel Richie, David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and worked closely with Ike and Tina Turner. She is also the co-author and voice of the ongoing children’s audio book series, Los Diggities, written about three rescued dogs living in Los Angeles (first published in 2010). Seven cds of her music have been released on both domestic and international labels, as well as 2 performance DVDs.

Jeanie and her brother Caleb (also adopted) bounced from city to city as children, following the marching orders of their father, an officer in the United States Marine Corps. Wearing a leg brace and walking with a pronounced limp, Jeanie had to endure the taunts of other school children with every move her family made. She attributes this childhood challenge as being a key component to developing her comedic humor and performance capabilities. The taunts of the children ended quickly once they discovered Jeanie’s talents and she would often entertain them with original songs that either voiced dissent over faculty members or anti-war sentiments shared by youth in the turbulent 1960s.

Her music has also been heard worldwide from 1986 to present, as part of several high-profile product campaigns, with corporations such as Mitsubishi, Epson, Yamaha, Toshiba, and Chevron being among the many to utilize her original works. Being anonymously responsible for a number of musical wakeup broadcasts to Space Shuttle astronauts from NASA’s mission control during the late 1980s through the early 90s, earned Cunningham the nickname, “The Most Flown Unknown”.

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Who is Jeanie Cunningham Dating?

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In addition to her ongoing pursuits as a solo recording artist and “custom- songwriter”, Cunningham began developing a new TV show called The Composers’ Corner in 2003, dedicated to “interviewing musicians by musicians, exploring new gadgets and techniques, dissecting songs, and giving the viewer a window into the world of music creation”. In 2007, The Composers Corner moved to the internet with its own website dedicated to the education of music to those who are interested in pursuing it as a career.

Facts & Trivia

Jeanie Ranked on the list of most popular Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jeanie Cunningham celebrates birthday on September 3 of every year.

In 2007, after a six-year dedicated effort, Cunningham completed 23 compositions for her first musical, DULA (from the play written by Paul Elliott), which gives a detailed and dramatic history of the folk-song legend Tom Dooley, and how an innocent man was hung for a crime he did not commit in the years immediately following the Civil War. Its first staged reading was performed at Northwestern University in 2012 and the world premiere of the full production took place at the Oh Look! Performing Arts Center near Dallas, Texas in 2015.

Top Facts about Jeanie Cunningham

1. Jeanie Cunningham is an American singer-songwriter known for her soulful voice.
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5. She has collaborated with renowned artists in the music industry.
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9. Jeanie Cunningham has performed at various prestigious venues around the world.
10. She continues to create captivating music that resonates with listeners globally.