Biography

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".