Boney M Singer Finds a New Calling - Helping the Homeless

One novel approach to helping the homeless is the formation of the Emmanuel Street Ministry by Chichi Armstrong and her co-founder writer and musician John.

The pair are using the power of music to help raise funds and to provide deposits to get homeless people into accommodation.

Chichi Armstrong is a very accomplished professional singer/songwriter who was born and brought up in Colchester, attending the well-known local Gilberd school before moving on the Colchester Tech.   

Chichi didn’t really sing at school. It wasn’t until she was about 15 that she started, and then years later began writing her own songs.

Image: With love Chichi Armstrong. 

The singer moved to London in her early 20s where she went on to perform with several different soul and funk bands, meeting soul singer James Brown after sitting next to his driver at a concert. Sadly, the great James Brown died just two months later.

It was her love of soul and funk that first got her started on the London music scene and then she joined the London Community Gospel Choir in 2003. Two years later Chichi was singing with Madonna on the track, Like a Prayer in front of half a million people in Hyde Park at the, Live 8 concert.

This led to her singing on various tours with Seventies group Boney M including a tour of Russia and other Eastern European countries.

The band had a falling out with some local Mafia heavies on one occasion, and it proved to be rather more exciting tour than the band might have hoped for, as they had to make their excuses and leave in a hurry!! 

As well as Live 8, with the London Community Gospel Choir Chichi got to play Barcelona and Ghana, where she took part in the Abolition of Slavery Celebration.    

Today Chichi is developing her career as an artist while running her Ministry. 

Chichi can be booked via her website: https://www.chichiarmstrong.com/about and there is more information on her Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Chichi-Armstrong-317132274967676/

ABC Note: Do check out her videos and music tracks. She's hot!

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