It’s not every day you meet someone so secure in their insecurities, but  it’s the lovely sense of contrasts that is part of Charmaine.  She will tell you how she has learned to be unafraid in her fears.  How her life as a modern-day gypsy has kept her anchored to her family and her life’s mission.  A conversation with Charmaine is a colorful mix of surprises--it’s only knowing Jesus that makes all the pieces fit in her life.

Charmaine is an only child of parents who immigrated to Australia from Chile, South America. With music at the core of their family, her parents began by committing their talents to God, then and starting a music ministry within their church based on commitment to Jesus, evangelism, and missions through music. They traveled the world in a Christian vocal group and raised Charmaine out of a suitcase.  For Charmaine, traveling to a new place to perform concerts every few days was the norm.  School, home life and routine were the exception.  Music was the real fabric of her life.  She remembers with a slight laugh, “My dad wrote a little chorus for me called ‘Jesus Is My Best Friend.’ Before every concert my parents would ask if I wanted to sing with them on stage. Being only four years old and not particularly wooed to the stage and lights,  sometimes I would say no, or sometimes say yes.’