Chicago Choir Joshua's Troop On Connecting With Chance The Rapper: 'He Called Me Personally'.
Josuha's Troop: Chicago Choir Talks Connecting With Chance the Rapper | Billboard
Percy Gray Jr. was sitting in church on Sunday (Mar. 19) around 5 p.m. when his phone suddenly started buzzing with an endless stream of texts and calls. Chance The Rapper was trying to get in touch with him.
Gray Jr. is the leader of the Chicago choir Joshua’s Troop, which Chance had tweeted about trying to connect with. “I checked my messages when I got out of church, and Chance had called me personally," Gray Jr. tells Billboard. "He left a message, who does that?!”
Josuha's Troop: Chicago Choir Talks Connecting With Chance the Rapper | Billboard
The urgency to connect was revealed on Monday (Mar. 20), when Chance invited the choir to sing at his Open Mike Chicago event, put on by his organization SocialWorks. Brittney Gray -- Gray Jr.’s 27-year-old-daughter who joined Joshua’s Troop at age 12 -- says prior to attending the event, it was enigmatic to her considering it is exclusively for high school students. Her only knowledge of Chance's Open Mike night was that it serves as a platform for Chicago’s youth to share their talents, which she -- and more importantly her father -- were able to witness first-hand.
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