Afi has a passion for music, especially singing. She has a powerful voice for her age and enjoys singing solo but also within groups like the Croydon SDA Youth Choir. 

Afi is currently studying Music Performance and Music Business at Leeds Conservatoire. Her passion for music means that she’s  really enjoying her experience so far and can’t wait to see where God will take her next. Afi has performed at various events including, Croydon SDA concerts, and the House of Praise concert at Newbold College in Bracknell in February 2019. 

Drawing its members from the Croydon Seventh-Day Adventist Church in South London, the Croydon SDA Gospel Choir started in 1979 as a youth choir. Over the past four decades it has reached millions across the globe through its album recordings, appearances on television and radio broadcasts, as well as performances across the world in churches, the concert stage, festivals, hospitals, prisons, and even in private residences.  

The ‘gospel’ in its name refers to the message it brings, which is identifiably based on the Christian faith which all of its members embrace. Musically, it dares to venture into a diverse range of genres, from different eras, and even languages, with an aim to reach every ‘nation, kindred, tongue, and people’.  To find out more, visit: www.croydonsdagospelchoir.co.uk 

Established for over 20 years, the Croydon Youth Choir have sung at a range of prestigious events, including the Southbank Centre Annual Music Festival and the Jamaican High Commission’s Independence Day celebration. The choir love to sing for the Lord and are passionate about giving their service through song. They have performed for nursing homes, shoppers in the Croydon town centre, and a variety of churches throughout England and internationally.

The Croydon Youth Choir have also sang with IDMC Gospel Soul Choir on their national tour, in the Front Room in Croydon.  The choir is led by Christelle Clements-Davis (Director) and Danielle Billett (Assistant Director).

David ministers regularly at Croydon Seventh-day Adventist Church as an Elder, and a lay preacher also ministering in song as a Soloist. David has attended Croydon Church from childhood and has sung with his siblings in several youth groups and choirs overs the years and more recently with his two daughters Serlina and Danielle.  Coming from a musical family he follows in his father’s footsteps (Wilton Joseph Billett) as a bass baritone soloist, and now sings regularly with the Croydon SDA Gospel Choir the Adventist Vocal Ensemble and in the trio The Three Basses, ministering in various parts of the world.  Nurtured as an orator from a young age David delivers his musical ministry with enthusiasm, power and conviction.  He has a passion for traditional hymns and Negro Spirituals that express rich and true Bible based theology, presenting the wonderful story of salvation and redemption. David will minister to us this evening with the presentation of one of his favourite hymns “It is Well” with a classical orchestral  accompaniment.

Diana is a Mexican cellist, graduated from the Music Conservatory of the State of Mexico in Toluca Mexico, initiates her musical excursion at an early age. By 1994 defines her attention to the cello under the wardship of cellist Maestro Adolfo Ramos. However is with the awarded and talented cellist Maestro Viacheslav Ponomarev (+) with whom she achieves a great development on the instrument. She also has received cellist instruction by Maestro Ivan Tchernichev, Maestro Vitali Roumanov, Maestro Lazlo Frater (+), Maestro Sergei Louzanov and Maestra Fabiola Flores.

She has been part of multiple chamber music ensembles including the Cellist Orchestra from the COMEM under the baton of Maestro Ivan Tchernichev; the Female Quartet from the COMEM; the Police Department from the State of Mexico Quartet; to mention a few. Maestra Roldan was part of the Symphonic Orchestra of the State of Mexico when training as an orchestra cellist (2003-2005); this experience gave her the opportunity to travel with the same orchestra in an European tour in 2003 under Maestro Enrique Batiz baton.

Around the middle of 2012, along with her brother – an amateur guitarist – they decided to become regular contributors of ADRA and ACFE , two philanthropic institutions, by donating the money collected at concerts by the selling of a CD they recorded named “Mi Alabanza” (My Praise). This is an ongoing contribution and collaboration.

By the years 2016 and 2017, maestra Roldan widespread her studies into musical theology. She took two specific courses related to religious music and theology around music at Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan and at Washington Adventist University, Washington D.C. She has taken this knowledge and developed a Music and Praise Conference for the Seventh Day Adventist Church section Valle de Mexico in Toluca, Mexico.

Nowadays she is a soloist and orchestra cellist at the Philarmonic Orchestra of Toluca, under the conducting of Maestro Gerardo Urban y Fernandez; also a soloist and orchestra cellist at the Chamber Orchestra of the State of Mexico University under the conducting of Maestro Vicente Saquicoray; exercises private cello teaching and both cello and voice at the Female Quartet AD LIBITUM. Maestra Diana Roldan decides to always use her cello as part of her gratitude and praises to God for her new life, her new identity and her new destiny in CHRIST.

Professor Janise White, Professor of Music at West Los Angeles College 1997 to 2017, is a child prodigy who began piano training at age 4 with James Beail, Director of the Mills College Music Training School in Oakland, California USA.  White first recorded at age 9 for the Musicolorama Competition winning First Prize in the instrumental section.  She placed First in the National Association of Negro Musicians Piano Competition in 1972. White became an integral part of the music staff at the Elmhurst SDA Church in Oakland, California accepting the appointment as Pianist by age 10 and Organist from ages 13 to 21.  

White  holds degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (B.M., Major in Piano; Minor in Harpischord), the University of Southern California (M.M., Piano), with Artist Diploma studies at Oberlin Conservatory of Music. White has continued her music ministry as organist/pianist/choir director at many Seventh-day Adventist Churches including the Berkeley, Normandie Avenue, Smyrna and currently, the Kansas Avenue SDA Church.  She has served as Organist for Dr. James Lawson, Advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr at the Holman United Methodist Church, Los Angeles with weekly broadcasts over KJLH.

As a concert pianist, she made appearances as soloist with the Oakland Youth Symphony under Denis DeCoteau, Inglewood Philharmonic under Leroy Hurte, the Marina del Rey Orchestra under Frank Fetta, Southeast Symphony under Dr. John Dennison and the Afro-American Chamber Music Society Orchestra under Kermit Moore and Michael Morgan.  Additionally, she has performed with Little Richard, Garrett Morris, John Patton, Natalie Cole, and for Alex Haley, Rosa Parks and Winnie Mandela. She has performed live for KUSC Sunday’s Live from 1988 to 2015 and her recordings have been broadcast over BBC Radio 3 and 4. Additionally, White has concertized in London, Paris and Canada.

For more information, please visit: https://janisewhite-keyboardist.weebly.com/