About this Event

Kingdom Liverpool on Harrington Street in Liverpool business district welcomes on Saturday 28th October the legendary American house music singer Crystal Waters. She will perform at Kingdom Liverpool, her first gig in the city for over 10 years for one night only.

Crystals set list will include “Gypsy woman” an iconic house track about a homeless woman in the US and ‘Destination Unknown’. Other classic club tracks that have been sampled and remixed on countless occasions such as “100% pure love” will also be performed.

The team over at Kingdom now aim to take inspiration from Crystals’ most memorable track ( a song about a homeless woman she would see daily outside an office block in Washington D.C ) to raise as much money and awareness as possible for the Whitechapel Charity in Liverpool.

Emma Bruffell commented “We are looking for support from businesses in the city who want to get involved in this night through co-sponsorship of this event. We are proud to announce Prospect Capital, the Liverpool based City Living. Urban Regeneration, Hotel Development & Investment Company as the first of the two required sponsors for the night. The homeless issue is so visible and evident in our city more than ever presently and the team at Kingdom and Bondmedia Agency will all be doing a sleep out with Whitechapel prior to this night as well as trying to raise as much money as possible on the night.

The Whitechapel Centre

Charity Number – 1013060

Reg co number - 2623071

The Whitechapel Centre is the leading homeless and housing charity for the Liverpool region and we work with people who are rough sleepers, living in temporary accommodation or struggling to manage their accommodation. We see a path that runs all the way from rough sleeping and street living to accommodation, independent living and employment, offering routes out of homelessness back into the community. It is our mission to see that each person is given practical and tailored support so that they can maintain a home and achieve their individual potential. Everyone’s journey through homelessness is different and there are a variety of services available to support someone on their journey. Last year, we worked with 2,814 people to end or prevent their homelessness.

Crystal Waters

Inspiration for the smash hit - When it comes to the song itself, the lyrics came straight out of reality. It's about a woman who stood in front of the Mayflower hotel in Washington, DC, on Connecticut Avenue. My sister worked in the hotel and I'd walk past this woman around once a week, and she looked fine. She didn't look like she was homeless. She always had a full face of makeup and black clothes and she'd be singing these gospel songs. I used think, 'Well, why don't you go and get a job instead of asking me for money?' Then there was an article on her in the paper! It said she'd just lost her job in retail, and she said that she thought if she was going to ask people for money then she should at least look presentable. And that changed my idea of homelessness. It could happen to anyone. Before that, I just had to hook down. Then I read that and the lyrics came to me. Like she was singing it