Camille
Alongside her studies at the Institut d'études politiques in Paris, Camille created her first album in 2002: Le Sac des filles. In 2004, she took part in the group album Nouvelle Vague that featured covers of rock hits in a bossa nova version. Her interpretation of four songs, notably Guns of Brixton by the Clash, revealed her to the public. But it was really her album Le Fil that imposed her, in 2005 as the inquiring, demanding and popular head of the new wave of French chanson. She expressed it in the poetry of her texts, which she writes herself, in her singular vocal texture and the singing, sound effects and composition techniques that she continuously developed and pushed to their limits in her next albums: Music Hole (2008) and Ilo Veyou (2011). Her voice, her whisperings, her animal cries, like her arrhythmias disconcert and captivate. Between breath and percussion, Camille's body is a musical instrument, and her voice, at the heart of her work, the material of an unexpected and generous sharing. Moreover, Camille accumulates experiences and artistic collaborations, with the choreographer Robyn Orlin, the director Claude Baqué and the plastic artist Sophie Calle who invited her, in 2007, to take part in her work Take Care of Yourself.
CC, April 2012