Christine Flowers is an American singer/actor. Her musical repertoire consists of verve-like jazz standards.
Early life
Christine Flowers was born in Cape Fear, North Carolina on July 1, 1960. The daughter of Margaret Flowers an air stewardess for TWA and Shirley Dean Flowers, a captain in the U.S. airforce. She is of European and Native American descent. Her mother was of Scottish descent and her father half Cherokee. Growing up in the south, more precisely Georgia, Christine was privy to a deep wealth of musical references. She participated in the Sunday morning services at Big Bethal and Ebenezer Baptist churches in southwest Atlanta where gospel riveted through her adolescent bones. Her classmates were the children and relatives of the more prolific figures and leaders of the Civil Rights Movement of that era. She was also very much influenced by the rich Rhythm & Blues/ Soul scene of the day through her classmates whose immediate family members where the likes of Gladys Knight & The Pips and Diane Carroll. It was with these influences she started her journey with music and at 16 landed her first professional gig in Nashville, Tennessee. She gained her professional experience doing numerous ensemble shows, fronting funk and groove bands and doing studio background vocals for country artists such as Reba McEntire, Tammy Wynette and Charlie Rich.
Flowers returned to Paris in the mid-nineties to perform at the ‘Lucky Nugget Saloon’ at Disneyland Paris where she played the leading role of Miss Diamond Lil. ». In 1998 she started a career in voice-over and cartoon work. She is the english speaking ‘voice’ for Air France and Skyteam and has also taken over Jane Fonda’s voice for the L’Oreàl Age Reperfect Repair campaign in both English and in French. She was also the voice of Mimi and Miss Brigitte from the cartoon series Eliot Kid as well as Sissi in Code Lyoko. Parallel to this, she continued singing in Parisian Clubs with her jazz trio composed of Jobic Le Masson, Peter Giron and John Betsch. In 2007, she collaborated on 2 songs as vocalist by the popular electro jazz/lounge group « Sofa Attitiude » for their debut album « Urban Love ». In 2009 she began recording her second album, ‘In A New Mood… a tribute to Oscar Brown Jr.’ at Sextan Recording Studio in Paris, France under the musical direction of Peter Giron.
