Cherie Camp

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 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.

References
  1. "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.
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