Cherie Camp is a Canadian musician."Singer Cherie Camp makes a pitch for the big time". ''

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'', May 12, 1981. She is most noted as cowriter with

John Welsman John Joseph Welsman (born 1955) is a Canadian composer known for his work in film and television. He has written film and television scores for production companies in both Canada and the United States. Some of the films he has worked on are '' ...

of "Oh Love", a song from the film ''

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'' which won the

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for

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at the

30th Genie Awards The 30th Genie Awards were presented on April 12, 2010 to honour films released in 2009.Dalton Camp Dalton Kingsley Camp, (September 11, 1920 – March 18, 2002) was a Canadian journalist, politician, political strategist and commentator, and supporter of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Although he was never elected to a sea ...

, she studied music and theatre at

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before starting her musical career in the late 1970s with Welsman and Jeff Kahnert in a folk band called Available Space. Kahnert left the band in 1980, and their style then evolved toward

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and

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music. In 1982, she had an acting role in Necessary Angel Theatre's production of Richard Wolfe's play ''Passchendaele''. In 1983 she released a self-titled pop album on

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. In this era, Liam Lacey of ''

'' wrote that Camp was an excellent songwriter, but that she lacked authority and charisma as a performer. In the late 1980s Camp performed backing vocals on

Jane Siberry Jane Siberry ( ; ; born 12 October 1955) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, known for such hits as " Mimi on the Beach", "I Muse Aloud", "One More Colour" and "Calling All Angels". She performed the theme song to the television series ''Maniac Ma ...

's albums ''

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'' and ''

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'', acted in Siberry's short film ''The Bird in the Gravel'' and

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's feature film ''

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'', and performed vocals for some music in

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's film '' White Room''. In the early 1990s, she performed with

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and

Shirley Eikhard Shirley Rose Eikhard (7 November 1955 – 15 December 2022) was a Canadian singer-songwriter. Although moderately successful in Canada as a performer in her own right, she had her greatest Canadian and international success as a songwriter for ...

in the trio The Three Marias.Peggy Nagle, "Uplifting folkie : Gwen Swick tackles romantic themes that invariably end on positive note". ''

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'', August 6, 1992. By the 2000s she had largely retired from the music business, but remained an occasional songwriting collaborator with Welsman.

References

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