ComingSoon can exclusively announce that Lee Fields: Faithful Man, a new documentary about the iconic soul singer, will be coming to streaming platforms in February.
Directed by Jessamyn Ansary and Joyce Mishaan, Lee Fields: Faithful Man will be coming to TVOD platforms — including Apple TV+, Amazon, Google Play, Vimeo, Microsoft, and YouTube — on February 27, 2024.
The documentary is already available for pre-ordering on Apple TV+.
What is Lee Fields: Faithful Man about?
“His voice has been compared to James Brown, but Lee Fields is no knock-off,” a portion of the synopsis reads. “He’s the real thing. Listening to the soul sounds coming through his transistor radio in the fifties and sixties, Fields was hooked. Through the seventies, he made his living as a singer touring alongside some of the greatest names in blues and soul history, including a stint with Kool and the Gang before their rise to fame. But, as the seventies came to a close, disco began its reign and Lee’s soul career plummeted. For decades, he thought his music dreams were dead. But with one phone call, everything changed.
“Interspersed with striking, never-before-seen performances of new and classic Lee Fields songs, Lee Fields: Faithful Man takes us through Lee’s memories from the moment soul music began, to his hard-won present-day success, and shows how 50 years of changing technology have conspired to create one beautiful but fleeting moment in music history. As Fields will tell you, it’s all about timing.”
Ansary and Mishaan both produce the documentary as well, while Christopher Poindexter, Albert Shemmy Mishaan, and Jennifer Colyer serve as executive producers, Rebecca Ansary-Pettys as the co-executive producer, and Michael Canzoniero, Ellyn Vander Wyden, Linda Saffire, Keith Miller, Taylor Haley, Rebekah Nelson, and Justin Giddings as co-producers.
“On the surface, we couldn’t be more different from Lee – by way of age, background, or life experience – but in working with him we came to recognize a synergy that is also echoed in his fan base. Most of his fans are closer to our age than to his, and Lee’s relationship to his new, young generation of fans — and his journey to bring this music forward into the 21st century — became a key thread in the film. So began a 10-year odyssey to understand ‘the power of Lee’,” Ansary and Mishaan said in a statement about the film.
Lee Fields: Faithful Man comes to TVOD platforms on February 27, 2024, from Gravitas Ventures.
