Liz Mitchell

Elizabeth Rebecca Pemberton-Mitchell MBE (born 12 July 1952) is a British singer and one of the original singers of the 1970s disco and reggae band Boney M. Mitchell was born in the parish of Clarendon, British Jamaica. At the age of eleven, Mitchell and her family emigrated to Harlesden, England, in 1963. By the end of the decade, she auditioned for Hair and eventually moved to West Berlin to join the German cast where she replaced Donna Summer. After Hair, Mitchell joined the Les Humphries Singers for a few years and represented West Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest with the Ralph Siegel title "Sing Sang Song". The band was then reduced to only six singers (Liz was not one of them) for the show (their usual line-ups consisted of 20 performers and up) and came in 15th place with 12 points, which they regarded as their beginning of the end as a band. A phone call from Katja Wolff agency in February 1976 persuaded Mitchell to return to West Germany to join a new group being asse...