Camille Bright-Smith
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Life and work
Camille Brightsmith studied music in Long Beach, but departed shortly before her finals after arguing with professors about her music, lifestyle and opinions. She shifted from classical music to rock and joined local projects like Gush and The Bright Projects as a singer, keyboardist and guitarist.She is citing Patti Smith
Patti Smith
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, PJ Harvey
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, Radiohead
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, Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell
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, Tori Amos
Tori Amos
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and Air as influences.
In 2008 she released her solo album The Great Divide recorded by Travis Dickerson
Travis Dickerson
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. John Bright, Travis himself and his brother Lindy, Thanatopsis
Thanatopsis (band)
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drummer Ramy Antoun, Tony Brock
Tony Brock
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(The Babys
The Babys
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) and Dustin Boyer (guitarist for Jennifer Love Hewitt
Jennifer Love Hewitt
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) also worked on the album.
Even before The Great Divide was released work began on More Sex, Less Violence Currently she writes songs on a regular basis for her blog at http://bloginsong.com. The blog comments on current events, is often political in nature, and "aims to push the limits of blogging comentary and get people involved".
She is a member of the National Organization for Women
National Organization for Women
The National Organization for Women is the largest feminist organization in the United States. It was founded in 1966 and has a membership of 500,000 contributing members. The organization consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S...
and headed a department in Long Beach.
Camille has two children (twins) born in 2006.
Discography
- GUSH (1997)
- The Great Divide (2008)
- Rent (2010)
- More Sex, Less Violence (tba)