Dr. François S. Clemmons
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Dr. François S. Clemmons

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Dr. François Scarborough Clemmons is an Afro-American singer, actor, playwright and university lecturer. He is perhaps best known for his appearances as the singing police officer, "Officer Clemmons," on the award-winning PBS television series Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Dr. Clemmons received a bachelor of music degree from Oberlin College and a master of fine arts from Carnegie Mellon University. He also received two honorary doctor of arts degrees from Middlebury College and Sewanee: The University of the South. In 1973, he won a Grammy Award for a recording of Porgy and Bess; in 1986, he founded and directed the Harlem Spiritual Ensemble; and from 1997 until his retirement in 2013, Clemmons was the Alexander Twilight Artist in Residence and director of the Martin Luther King Spiritual Choir at Middlebury College in Vermont, where he currently resides. https://francoisclemmons.net/
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