Etta Cameron

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

Life and work

Born in the British Bahamas, she moved with her family in 1948 in the United States where she sang as a child in the gospel choir of her Methodist church. In 1967 she was offered during a guest performance in London, a few days to work in East Berlin. There, however, her passport was stolen, so they stuck during the next five years in the GDR. In 1969, she was not with me in the film, madam! be seen as a singer, and performed in 1970 in the film Hey, you! entitled Jungle City, USA on. Since 1972 she has lived in Copenhagen, where she toured with his own band since 1975. She performed as a jazz singer, inter alia, with the NDR Big Band, the Big Band of Radio Denmark, Kurt Edelhagen, Clark Terry, Thad Jones, Ed Thigpen, Horace Parlan, Herb Geller, Frank Foster, Dusko Goykovich, Ben Webster, Palle Mikkel Borg, Niels -Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Thilo Wolf, Poul Godske and Marilyn Mazur on. She also starred in musicals ( "South Park" ) with, interpreted pop ballads and toured since 1982 with her own gospel choir "Voices of Joy".

In 1976 she had a small hit in the German single charts: I'm a Woman from the eponymous LP reached number 42 was also popularized the single Wild Widow.

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

Prizes and awards

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

Disco Graphical Notes

• Etta Cameron and Nikolaj Hess with Friends ( with Marilyn Mazur, Palle Mikkel Borg, Klavs HOVMAN, Jens Søndergaard; Stunt Records 2009)