About Charlotte
Born to Edward Perry Mitchell II and Laura Mae Anna McCormick-Mitchell, Charlotte is one of 3 children. She was educated by Kansas City Missouri public schools and attended Lincoln University in Jefferson City, MO where she studied music education. Born and raised in the Baptist church, she began singing at an early age in the St. Johns Missionary Baptist Church youth choir, accompanied by Laura Lee Langford-McCormick, her grandmother. She started singing for various church events, funerals, weddings, banquets and corporate events. She has been directing the youth choir and leading the liturgical youth dancers at St. Johns Church since 1991. She served as the Music Coordinator for the Union District Association from 1999 to 2004. She now is a proud member of Concord Fortress of Hope Church, Pastor Ron Lindsay. Charlotte sang publically for the first time, in a High School talent show with her friends, leading the song "I've Got A Meeting In The Ladies Room" by the group Klymaxx. She went on to secure a music scholarship from the NAACP Act-So scholarship program.
Charlotte's first time recording was with her Uncle Charles McCormick, lead singer of Bloodstone. She performed on their project "Bloodstone, Now That's What I'm Talkin' Bout" singing some lead vocals on the track titled "God Knows" in 2004. During the same year, she also sang for her Uncle Larry McCormick's funeral. He was the first african american anchorman in Los Angeles. She has won countless singing competitions including Isle Make You A Star w/ the Isle of Capri Casino and TD Jakes Megafest. She has shared the stage with multiple gospel artists including Donnie McClurkin, J Moss, Byron Cage. She also opened for Mary Mary, John P Kee and The Mighty Clouds of Joy in 2007 in Texas. Charlotte was a 2012 X-Factor contestant. She received four standing ovations and went onto bootcamp. However, the audition was not televised. Charlotte is now the lead singer of the group Charlotte Fletcher @ Soigne'. She is determined to continue what God has placed her on this earth to do, and that is, to lift bowed-heads and to encourage those who face adversity. The words that she attempts to live by: "If I can help somebody as I travel along. If I can cheer somebody with a word or song. If I can show somebody that he's traveling wrong. Then my living will not be in vain" Mahalia Jackson
“I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water. "
– Ray Charles