Frenchie Davis

Frenchie Davis was born in Los Angeles, California but she began as a theatre student at Washington DC’s Howard University. While studying there, she got her first acting/singing job playing one of the street urchins in a production of Little Shop of Horrors with a small theatre company in Germany. The same German company later rehired her for a production of Jesus Christ Superstar, the following year. After her return to the states, she auditioned for American Idol and was flown to LA, made her mark on the show, and turned out to be a huge favorite with America to win the show.
Frenchie worked in 2003 as a “Grammy” correspondent for Entertainment Tonight and performed the song “And I Am Telling You" on the set of ET for the show as well. She was then cast in the Broadway show RENT; she took a leave of absence to portray the role of “Effie White” in the West coast tour of the play DreamGirls. Frenchie also starred as "Betty Currey" in the comedy satire about President Clinton, called "Monica" the musical. This was done for the New York musical theater festival. Frenchie was originally signed to star in RENT for 6 months but it turned into nearly 4 years. Before she left the show in early April 2007, she issued this message to all her fans in the Broadway community.
"After nearly 4 wonderful years, I am sad (and a little happy) to announce that I will be leaving Rent in April...I want to take this chance to say thank you to all of the fans and people that came out to support during my time in the show. I also would like to offer my sincerest thanks to the producers of the show for allowing me the opportunity to contribute to such a wonderful piece of theatre history. I know that I will look back at these times as some of the best of my life...thank you so much!," she wrote.
In August 2007, Frenchie stepped into the shoes of Jennifer Holliday and starred in a one women stage play (for Hartford, Conn. Stage) based on the legendary gospel great “Mahalia Jackson” This production was called “Sing, Mahalia, Sing’.
In November of 2008 Frenchie co-headlined in (with her American Idol friend Ruben Studdard) the 30th Ann. touring road show of the hit Broadway play “Ain’t Misbehavin.” Naturally she will be playing the part that won Nell Carter a Tony Award….and got RAVE reviews for this role.
In July 2009 Frenchie released a dance cover of the Shannon classic “Give Me Tonight” which takes this hit song to a whole new place and for a whole new generation. The song has been getting an amazing reaction from the Billboard DJ’s and from Frenchie’s fans all over the world and is currently #21 on the Billboard Dance Charts.
In November 2009 famed DJ/Remixer Tony Moran will be releasing Frenchie’s second dance single called “You Are” as a cd single. The word from Tony is that this song is guaranteed to be a #1 song on the dance charts. This will feature remixes from 8 different people. Frenchie is also in the process of starting to record her “debut” Cd, which will be a combination of the “classics,” “broadway” and a few new “original” songs.

Needless to say the sky is the limit for this amazingly talented lady with a “god given” voice from above.
-http://www.frenchiedavis.org/