In a 2013 interview, established gospel artist, Kurt Carr, stated that LaShone Cleveland was in fact James Cleveland's biological child having performed with her in 1989 at James Cleveland's Cornerstone Institutional Baptist Church with the elder Cleveland in attendance.
In a 2013 interview, established gospel artist, Kurt Carr, stated that gospel singer LaShone Cleveland is in fact James Cleveland's biological child. In 1989, she and Carr worked together musically in the lead-up to a concert they held at James Cleveland's Cornerstone Institutional Baptist Church with the elder Cleveland in attendance.