Camilla Henemark, also known as La Camilla, is a Swedish singer, actress, political spokesperson and former fashion model.

Biography

Henemark was born in Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

, to a Nigerian father and a Swedish mother. She started her modeling career in her teens and later had her own modeling agency. Henemark started her career in music in 1985 by joining Alexander Bard

Alexander Bard

Alexander Bengt Magnus Bard is a Swedish artist, music producer and writer.-Background and education:Bard was born Alexander Bengt Magnus Bard in Medevi, Motala Municipality, Sweden. After he had completed his upper secondary education, Bard studied in the United States and in Amsterdam, Netherlands...

 in his Barbie project as Katanga. That project morphed into the group Army of Lovers

Army Of Lovers

Army of Lovers are a Swedish dance music group formed in 1987.The name of the band alludes to a documentary Armee der Liebenden oder Revolte der Perversen about the German gay rights activist Rosa von Praunheim, the title of which in turn alludes to the Theban Band.-History:The founding members,...

, and soon La Camilla (as she is best known) became the face of the group. After two albums (and at least one public fight) with the group, she left and began a solo career. She released several singles that failed to achieve commercial success, and recorded at least one album that was never released (called Temper). Henemark then rejoined Army of Lovers in 2000 for their Le Grand Docu-Soap reunion album and has worked with them on all their most recent recordings.

Besides music, Henemark has had an active career in TV and movies, and is an active supporter of the Swedish Social Democratic Party

Swedish Social Democratic Party

The Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party, , contesting elections as 'the Workers' Party – the Social Democrats' , or sometimes referred to just as 'the Social Democrats' and most commonly as Sossarna ; is the oldest and largest political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1889...

. She is currently single but was married to film director Anders Skog, and had a long-term relationship with pop star and music video director Stakka Bo (Johan Renck

Johan Renck

Bo Johan Renck is a Swedish director of music videos, TV and film. He is an occasional recording artist using the moniker Stakka Bo.-Music videos:...

). She likes ice hockey

Ice hockey

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 and association football, and is well known for her liberal views on sex, gay rights, and life.

On November 3, 2010, the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet

Aftonbladet

Aftonbladet is a Swedish tabloid founded by Lars Johan Hierta in 1830 during the modernization of Sweden. It is one of the larger daily newspapers in the Nordic countries. Aftonbladet is owned by the Swedish Trade Union Confederation and Norwegian media group Schibsted, and its editorial page...

published excerpts from a book about the Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf, Den Motvillige Monarken ("The Reluctant Monarch"), claiming that he had a year-long love affair with Henemark in the late 1990s

1990s

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.

Solo singles

• 1992 "Everytime You Lie"
• 1993 "Give Me Your Love (Je T'aime)" (with MTV
  MTV
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  's Steve Blame
  Steve Blame
  Steve Blame was MTV News Editor and Presenter between 1987 and 1994.Autobiography released 2010. : MTV, Deutschland und Ich. Relentlessly honest, relentlessly self-deprecating: the icon of the MTV generation grows up....
  
  )
• 1996 "The Witch in Me"
• 1996 "I'm Not in the Mood for Lovers"
• 2001 "Russians Are Coming" (with Russian singer Danko)
• 2010 "David & Goliath" Neverland Project Featuring La Camilla

Film

• 1997 Eva & Adam - cameo
• 1998 Teater
• 2000 Sex, lögner & videovåld - herself
• 2000 Livet Är En Schlager - cameo
• 2001 Jarrett (Encounters) - Chairman at EU Summit

TV

• 1994 Sjunde Himlen (7th Heaven) - host
• 1997 Kenny Starfighter (mini series) - nurse
• 1997 Så ska det låta - herself
• 2000 Vita Lögner (White Lies, one episode) - co-host
• 2003 Big Brother
  Big Brother (TV series)
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  (Swedish version) - guest

External links

• The Neverland Project Featuring La Camilla