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'Di Chick' Responds

By GERMAINE SMITH, Staff Reporter

ALTHEA HEWITT, FORMER member of the Fourth Street Sisters singing group has responded to her name being slashed across the city walls beside LA Lewis' in guerilla marketing style.

Last week, THE STAR reported that unknown person/s had started to spray the name 'Althea Di Chick' on city walls beside the LA Lewis name, sometimes attaching the labels 'Althea Di Chick Super Singer' or 'Althea Di Chick, Super Diva.'

Not too worried

The singer apparently is not too worried about the trouble it may cause her. When contacted, she denied knowing who did it, but seemed quite jovial about it.

"I think it is fabulous," she jokingly stated. "Somebody must love me very much to be doing that."

She told THE STAR that she heard about the writings but it was not clear to her who was doing it.

"I saw a couple of them recently, after leaving the group. I heard a couple of people close to me talk about it, and they said they heard that some former fans of Fourth Street Sisters have done it. I heard it was some underground youths ... somebody said I knew the persons but it seems to be a big secret."

Stiff fines

Hewitt noted that she was aware of the stiff fines and possible jail time attached to the aggressive marketing strategy the graffiti artistes used, but she was not worried.

"I understand that if they are not caught in the act they cannot get into serious trouble, but I don't know who is writing it and I never told anyone to do it."

"I hope I am not encroaching on anyone's property, I am quite impressed that somebody would go to that length for me, even without me asking them to do it, but that was not my doing," she declared.