💁🏾‍♀️(Submitted by Rosalind Richardson-Elliott ‘75)

🎤Graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in 1975
🎤From the late 1980s up until 1992, Currelley-Young was a the lead singer of the SOS Band where she replaced the original lead singer. 
🎤As lead singer, she continued the band’s string of Top Twenty Billboard hits with the CD’s “Diamonds In The Raw”, and “One Of Many Nights”, where she wrote several songs, including the single “Broken Promises.”
🎤Upon leaving the SOS Band, Currelley-Young pursued a career in acting and theater.
🎤Her breakout role came when she starred in the 1995 Apollo Revival of The Wiz as Evillene The Wicked Witch of the West, and received a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Lead Actress in a Musical. 
🎤Currelley-Young has done extensive work with director and writer Tyler Perry. 
🎤She is most known for her breakout roles Tyler Perry’s Laugh to Keep From Crying, Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas The Play, and Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family (play).
🎤Her television credits include VH-1, Say Yes! (TBN) , (BET) Jazz Showcase (PBS) and Good Day Atlanta (Fox), Bobby Jones Artist Showcase (The Word Network) Tyler Perry’s “For Better Or Worse”(OWN)
🎤The Gospel Choice Award nominee has performed at The White House and toured Europe and Asia leaving audiences wanting more. She has also starred in “Dinah Was”, “Blues In the Night”, “The Hot Mikado”, “Amen Corner” (The Alliance Theatre/ Arena Stage).

Source: ChandraCurrelley.com, Tyler Perry Fandom

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Sources: WABE, PhillyTrib.com