Afrobeat, Reggae, Blues, Afro-Brazilian
Line-up:
Angela Ordu – voc, kalimba, shakers (NIG/DE)
Daniela Barilas – Voc, Keys, Bass, Guitar, Drums (Ven)
Andreza Jesus – Voc., Pandero (Br)
Cris Arruda – Voc., Perc (Br)
MC Josh – Poet (De)
Beatriz Ferreira Magalhaes – Voc, Guitar, Perc (Br)
Louie Remo – Voc., Drums, Guitar, Bass, Keys (USA)
Stand by:
Nymphéa Marie Kolly – Voc., Guitar, Perc (Fr)
Sabina Velasco – Voc., Percussion
Ria Rother  – Drums, Bass (DE)
Johanna Arcanoa – Flute, Saxophone (DE)
Valerie Djurhuus – Poet (DK)

The fresh Berlin female multicultural formation FREE SPIRITZ was founded by the Nigerian-German singer Angela Ordu and has fun transforming many musical styles, their own compositions and well-known songs from Nigeria, Ghana & Brazil into groovy, danceable music. Angela writes Reggae and Afrobeat songs, including her own lyrics.
After the concerts there are usually “Ladies Jam Sessions”.
At the age of 35, Angela Ordu suffered a stroke and the autoimmune disease LUPUS, which forced her to interrupt her career for many years.
She is now celebrating her comeback.
FREE SPIRITZ is represented by PINC MUSIC, the platform for inclusive music.

Angela Chinyere Ordu, also known as Chi Chi Ordu and January Ordu, was born in Saarbrücken in 1971 with Igbo-Nigerian parents and began singing before she could walk… She spent her childhood and youth between Germany, the USA, Nigeria and Great Britain. Back in Germany in the early 1990s, she played in a cover band for five years while studying business administration in Frankfurt am Main and began writing songs.
With the name Chi Chi Ordu she sang for BG Prince of Rap, whose music was produced by JAM and SPOON with the songs Round And Round, Walk Over The Rainbow and on his album The Time Is Now, worked with music producer GABRIEL GROH (Ohne Dich ) and GEORGE BRASCH (Realize, In Your Eyes). In Berlin and worked with the DJ Company name “January Ordu”, whose music was produced by PAUL STRAND, STEFAN BENZ and LOUIS LASKY, got a contract with MARIAH CAREY’s label CRAVE. Together they toured Europe and the USA (via Sony) in 1997-98 and reached the US charts with “Rhythm Of Love”.
After her return to Germany, she worked with music producer MARTIN DE VRIES under the name “January” and received a contract with “Universal” in 1999; the single One Love was successful in the German charts.
In the 2000s she worked with CHIMA ONYELE: Das Licht, BROTHERS KEEPERS Lightkultur, (Downbeat), MATTHIAS TRIPPNER: Gray Cat, SISTERS KEEPERS Love and Mind (Echo beach), JAN DELAY, SAM RAGGA BAND and with the KATJA RIEMANN OCTET.

Angela founded her own formations, the “QUEENSLAND BAND”, in collaboration with HENRY MEX (African Lady), remixed by JONAS HAMMOND. In the summer of 2014 she celebrates her comeback with the QUEENSLAND BAND: concerts “Charité World-LUPUS-Tag”, “Fete de la Musique Berlin”, Jazzsommer Berlin, Kreuzberg Festival and many more.

In 2018 she formed “QUEENSLAND SINGERS” – Friederike Boguslawski, Kaisha Jones and Valerie Djuhuurs. Her concerts included, for example, Open Air at Mariannenplatz on the occasion of Women’s Day with Carmen Zola, WABE Berlin, Birthday–Tribute to Miriam Makeba with the Fem Jam Collective, Carnival of Cultures with the Fem Jam Collective, Radio Multicult FM.

In 2020 she founded FREE SPIRITZ with concerts such as the Black Berlin Biennale, Bundestag Election Day and the Berlin Women’s Festival Berlin on March 8, 2024.

She developed the autoimmune disease LUPUS-Erythematosus with almost all symptoms, suffered a stroke at the age of 35 and had to interrupt her career often.
LUPUS is also called BUTTERFLY, 95% of the infected people are WOMEN !
She supports the German Society for Lupus Research e.V. DGLF.