Merry Clayton
Department: Acting
Biography
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".
Known For
Maid to Order
1987
Get Bruce!
1999
Blame It on the Night
1984
Dirty Dancing Live in Concert
1988
20 Feet from Stardom
2013
Nine 1/2 Weeks
1986
A Private Affair
2000
Cagney & Lacey: The Return
1994
Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It
2026
Cagney & Lacey
1982
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
1988
Women Who Rock
2022
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003