Featuring Roosevelt André Credit and Christine de Frece

They’re way more than singers in this show. Rehearsing with them is like having four music directors in the room who love working together.

Christine de Frece

Vocals

Christine de Frece is a singer, actor, music director and voice teacher. Her students can be seen on Broadway, Off-Broadway, on national tours and cruise ships, and in regional theaters across the United States, Canada and internationally. She is a voice specialist at New York Film Academy and former Chair of Vocal Performance at Circle in the Square Theatre School, and a graduate of the University of Lethbridge and Circle in the Square Theatre.

As an actress she has appeared in Titanic, It Shoulda Been You, Ragtime, Follies and Rumors (Carbonelle Award winner), among many others, and as a music director she has led Cabaret, Urinetown, Gypsy and The Music Man. She won Best Vocalist in the 2019 Broadway World Cabaret Awards, was a company member of the An Evening With… concert series at Green Room 42, and can be heard on the studio cast recording of Wanda’s World.

On Holiday Survival Kit Vol. 1 she’s featured on “The Best of Christmas.”

Roosevelt André Credit

Vocals, tambourine and co-writer

Bass-baritone Roosevelt André Credit has sung in the Metropolitan Opera’s productions of Porgy and Bess and Meistersinger, and was featured as a “Fisherman” in the Tony Award–winning, Grammy-nominated Broadway production of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. He has played several roles in the Tony Award–winning and national touring companies of Harold Prince’s Show Boat, was featured vocally in the Oscar-winning film 12 Years a Slave, and made his Carnegie Hall debut singing Schubert.

His repertoire runs from opera and oratorio to jazz, spirituals, pop and musicals, and he has been a featured soloist with Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Duke Ellington Orchestra. Also a conductor, he founded the Lappelle Choir, serves as Music Director of I.S.M.I.L.E. Carolers of New York, and has published an anthology of spirituals, Ol’ Time Religion. He holds degrees in music education, voice and opera, and conducting from Oregon State University and Northwestern University.

On Holiday Survival Kit Vol. 1 he’s featured on “This Little Light of Mine,” and he co-wrote “Habari Gani? Kuumba! (What’s the News?)” and led the way on it.

Hear them all on the album → Holiday Survival Kit Vol. 1 · Out November 6, 2026