Etta Cameron

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Etta Cameron in a duet with Manfred Krug, 1970
Etta Cameron in a duet with Manfred Krug , 1970
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
I have a dream
  DK 36 02/16/2001 (1 week)
Singles
I'm a woman
  DE 43 02/09/1976 (4 weeks)

Etta Cameron (born November 21, 1939 in Nassau , Bahamas , † March 4, 2010 in Aarhus , Denmark ) was a Danish jazz , gospel and blues singer.

Live and act

Born in the then British Bahamas, she moved with her family to the USA in 1948 at the age of 14 , where she sang in the gospel choir of her Methodist church as a child . In 1967, during a guest performance in London, she was offered to work in East Berlin for a few days , which turned into five years. In 1969 she was in the movie Not With Me, Madam! seen as a singer and appeared in the 1970 film He, Du! entitled Jungle City, USA . In 1972 she moved to Copenhagen , from where she toured with her own band from 1975. She performed as a jazz singer a. a. with the NDR Big Band , the Big Band from Radio Denmark, Kurt Edelhagen , Clark Terry , Thad Jones , Ed Thigpen , Horace Parlan , Herb Geller , Frank Foster , Dusko Goykovich , Ben Webster , Palle Mikkelborg , Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen , Thilo Wolf , Poul Godske and Marilyn Mazur . She also played in musicals such as South Park , interpreted pop ballads and toured with her own gospel choir Voices of Joy from 1982 .

In 1976 she had a small hit in the German single charts: I'm a Woman from the LP of the same name reached number 42. The single Wild Widow was also popular . With this title she appeared in the 30th episode of Radio Bremen's television program Musikladen in the same year . In those years their records were strongly influenced by disco and soul .

Cameron has taught at the Lund Music Academy since 1986 and at the Rytmisk Music Conservatory in Copenhagen from 1987 , where she was a professor from 1995.

Prizes and awards

Cameron received many prizes and awards: first the Golden Lion in 1974 , most recently a gold and a platinum record in 1999 . In 1997 she was honored as a knight of the Dannebrog Order .

Discographic notes

Albums

Singles

  • 1973: If You Should Go
  • 1974: Come Together All the People
  • 1974: I Gotta Feeling
  • 1974: Show Me a Man
  • 1974: One, Two, Three, Four
  • 1975: I'm a Woman
  • 1976: Wild Widow
  • 1976: To Die of Love
  • 1977: You Gotta Move

Filmography

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  1. ↑ Chart data DK
  2. ↑ Chart data DE
  3. ↑ "Etta Cameron er død" ("Etta Cameron is dead") , politiken.dk, March 5, 2010 (in Danish)
  4. ↑ According to an article in the taz, Cameron has "rejuvenated" himself by 5 years because of the professional advantages https://www.taz.de/Afroameräne-Saengerin-in-der-DDR/!5350315/

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personal data
SURNAME Cameron, Etta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Nassau , Bahamas
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 2010
Place of death Aarhus , Denmark