Simona Armstrong (born 1977/78) is a Romanian born actress and singer who lives and works mainly in the UK.
Between 2004 and 2007, she made a few television acting appearances in the UK, notably in Doctors, Sinchronicity and A Touch Of Frost. On stage Armstrong has appeared in Fame and Little Shop Of Horrors. In 2006, she participated in the BBC1 reality TV series How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?. The winner would play the lead role in a revival of The Sound Of Music being staged by Andrew Lloyd Webber at the London Palladium. Although she failed in her bid to win the competition, she returned to television contests in 2008, presenting the song "Changes", in the 2008 show Eurovision: Your Decision, hoping to represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest. Armstrong reached the audience voting stages, but was not selected as one of the two finalists.
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“I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo.”
—Frantz Fanon (1925–1961)