Liz Mitchell

Rebecca Elizabeth " Liz " Mitchell ( born July 12, 1952 in Clarendon ) is a Jamaican singer. She was best known as the lead singer of the band Boney M..

Life

Mitchell moved with her family at the age of eleven years to London. In 1969 she was awarded after an audition exposure to the musical Hair. The following year, she took over in Berlin on vocals by Donna Summer, which had previously occurred in Munich. There she met Malcolm Magaron, with whom she conducted a relationship over the coming years.

Les Humphries Singers

Between December 1970 and the autumn of 1972 Mitchell was a member of Les Humphries Singers. Together with Malcolm Magaron she left the band; they released afterwards under the name of Malcolm and Liz and Malcolm's Locks phonograms, which are commercially available but were unsuccessful.

Boney M.

Mitchell had separated from Magaron and returned to Jamaica. Marcia Barrett, who was already a member of the band asked her to at Mitchell as Frank Farian was looking for another singer. After some studio recordings Farian to use only the voices of Mitchell and Barrett decided.

After Boney M.

After Frank Farian had turned to other projects and the band dissolved in 1986 actually, Mitchell published 1988 solo album No One Will Force You, which initially but appeared only in Spain. The following year, it was also released in France and the Netherlands, as the interest in the band Boney M. by a successful remix album of old hits was risen again. They also took with Farian on a new Boney M. single.

Frank Farian Mitchell granted the right to use the name Boney M.. This touring since then as Boney M. featuring Liz Mitchell. In changing formations since 2008 singing with her ​​daughter Adero Pemberton.

Solo albums

• No One Will Force You, 1988 ( Spain) / 1989 (France, Benelux) / 1993 (Denmark)
• Share The World, 1999
• A Christmas Rose, 2000
• Let It Be, 2004
• ... Sings The Hits Of Boney M, 2005
• My Life Is In Your Hands, 2006 ( mini-album, EP)