Chris Armand, born July 29, 1996 in Santo Domingo, is a Dominican worship singer. He is the son of pastors and came up through the Asamblea de Dios Central in Los Alcarrizos, where the youth ministry did most of the forming.

The güira

He did not start as a singer. What he wanted was percussion, and specifically the güira — and when the church musicians would not let a restless child near the instruments, his mother went and bought him one. It is the most ordinary story in Dominican music and one of the least often written down: the instrument arrives at home before any training does.

The voice came later and did not arrive ready. He has said that when he sang in the 40 Días con Propósito discipleship programme he sang badly, and knew it, and that knowing it was the point at which he started working.

Los Alcarrizos

His congregation sits in the same working-class town west of Santo Domingo that Génesis Colón comes from. He names Lilly Goodman, Isabelle Valdez and Marcos Yaroide among the singers he learned from, alongside African-American vocalists — a set of influences that maps the Dominican worship canon almost exactly.

From Facebook to a stage

He built an audience online before he had a catalogue, starting on Facebook and expanding through the pandemic. The turn came when he won a talent night run by Robert Green, which carried him beyond the country and into Latin American attention.

Amor Eterno

The 2024 single takes its text from Jeremiah 31:3. He co-produced it with Andy Medrano, with Richard Acosta on acoustic guitar and Jeremías Díaz on electric, and documented the writing of it on TikTok as it happened — which is its own small departure from how worship records are normally presented.

He also sings on Corro A Ti with Misael J and Richard Acosta, released through Hope W Music and Tba Worship.