Cherie Camp

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Cherie Camp is a Canadian musician. [1] She is most noted as cowriter with John Welsman of "Oh Love", a song from the film Nurse.Fighter.Boy which won the Genie Award for Best Original Song at the 30th Genie Awards. [2]

The daughter of journalist Dalton Camp, [3] she studied music and theatre at Queen's University before starting her musical career in the late 1970s with Welsman and Jeff Kahnert in a folk band called Available Space. [1] Kahnert left the band in 1980, and their style then evolved toward jazz and blues music. [1] In 1982, she had an acting role in Necessary Angel Theatre's production of Richard Wolfe's play Passchendaele. [4]

In 1983 she released a self-titled pop album on WEA Records. [5] In this era, Liam Lacey of The Globe and Mail wrote that Camp was an excellent songwriter, but that she lacked authority and charisma as a performer. [6]

In the late 1980s Camp performed backing vocals on Jane Siberry's albums The Walking and Bound by the Beauty , acted in Siberry's short film The Bird in the Gravel [7] and Peter Mettler's feature film The Top of His Head , and performed vocals for some music in Patricia Rozema's film White Room . [8] In the early 1990s, she performed with Gwen Swick and Shirley Eikhard in the trio The Three Marias. [9]

By the 2000s she had largely retired from the music business, but remained an occasional songwriting collaborator with Welsman. In 2024 she released Love and Blood, her second full-length album. [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Singer Cherie Camp makes a pitch for the big time". The Globe and Mail , May 12, 1981.
  2. ↑ Cassandra Szklarski, "'Polytechnique' sweeps Genies". Canadian Press, April 14, 2010.
  3. ↑ Zena Cherry, "Former Tely workers reunite". The Globe and Mail , October 31, 1981.
  4. ↑ Ray Conlogue, "It's an ambitious battle plan, but total victory still elusive". The Globe and Mail , April 5, 1982.
  5. ↑ Liam Lacey, "Still another perspective on Modern Love: Cherie Camp". The Globe and Mail , January 19, 1984.
  6. ↑ Liam Lacey, "Songwriting is Camp's forte: In performance, however, she lacks authority". The Globe and Mail , July 5, 1984.
  7. ↑ Mary Collier, "Siberry using tour to boost sales of her latest film". Ottawa Citizen , March 18, 1988.
  8. ↑ Peter Goddard, "Roger rocks on as movie maker". Toronto Star , May 18, 1990.
  9. ↑ Peggy Nagle, "Uplifting folkie : Gwen Swick tackles romantic themes that invariably end on positive note". Waterloo Region Record , August 6, 1992.
  10. ↑ Kerry Doole, "New & Upcoming Canadian Album Releases: Kiesza, Old Man Luedecke, David Myles & More". Billboard , May 24, 2024.
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