But Pele and Richard made sure that any prize money went directly into Camille’s bank account. To allay the cost of petrol and accommodation, Camille’s mum would run raffles at her hairdressing salon. With a voice beyond her years, she was snapping up junior titles up and down the country most weekends. Her father Richard had taken her to the Gisborne Country Music Club when she was eight and she was soon a regular on the country music club awards circuit. It was her trampolining coach who told Camille she would have to choose between the sport and music. There were stints in ballet, gymnastics and tap-dancing before she found success in trampolining, eventually competing for New Zealand at the Pan Pacific Championships. She was an active child, not afraid to try her hand at most sports. Camille would be dragged along to rehearsals where she would pick up the lyrics before her mother had. Her mother Pele was part of the Waihirere Maori Club kapa haka group and the Gisborne Operatic Society. All the while she has kept her Māori culture to the fore with songs such as ‘ Blue Smoke’, ‘Te Rina’, Prince Tui Teka’s ‘Mum’ and Eddie Low’s ‘Song Of Home’ amongst her recorded output her own ‘Maori Woman’ even references her home town of Gisborne.Ĭamille was born there on 12 April 1976. That led to touring and recording with Gina Jeffreys, Beccy Cole and Troy Cassar-Daley, where she first met Stuie French.Ĭamille and Stuie married in 2006 and have released five albums as a duo as well as raising three children. The promise of a job in Sydney fell over and she spent the next couple of years learning the business on the road with crossover star Kasey Chambers.
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