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PIRATE • COnnnUED FROm 5 in Richmond, Va., Motion Picture Demise has been touring all summer to promote its first studio album released earlier this summer, “Rebuild/Reform.” The band’s appearance will be its second at Pirate Fest! and one of its last stops before the tour ends in late September. Local bands Paper Champions and Burns out Bright play punk indie rock. Burns out Bright started in 1999 with Isaac Stone, Chris Shirah, Chris Jaffy and Forest Montgomery. Their current lineup includes Stone, Shirah, - Montgomery and Bryan Taylor. “At Pirate Fest! we’re playing really old songs we never play anymore,” Stone said. Rayford said this will be* Burns Out Bright’s last show playing their old songs.. In the year since they last played Pirate Fest!, they have toured with ReVera and are working on “Save Yourself a Lifetime,” their follow up album to “The Distance of Darkness.” They will later this month tour with Stretch Arm Strong and then hit the East Coast in October. Pirate Fest! is a great way for anyone new to Columbia to get to know the local music scene as well as experience music from Indianapolis, Virginia, Georgia and North Carolina. Show up dressed as a pirate and be eligible to win prizes from show sponsors Sounds Familiar Discs and Tapes, Bluetile Skateboards, Dano’s Pizza and Doghouse Records. Tickets are $12 and can be purchased at New Brookland Tavern. Tickets can be purchased in advance by calling 803-791-4413. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockfeatures@gwm.sc.edu LOOK FOR THESE BANDS AT PIRATE FEST! 2: -♦ KOUFAX ♦ Heist & the Accomplice ♦ Burns Out Bright ♦ Paper Champions ♦ Re Vera ♦ TufFEnuFF ♦ Monstro ♦ Maladroit Mafia ♦ Art Lord & the Self Portraits ♦ Orgone Accumulator ♦ The Map Says Were F—ed ♦ Motion Picture Demise ♦ Arianna ♦ The Fancy Lads I I v Dutch Square Mall_/ Movies Times Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Deuce Bigalow: European Sigoto Four Brothers March of the Penguins Red Eye Skeleton Key . 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Smith cites Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and Beyonce as musical influences. ‘Wow, this is a hit’ * Camille Smith teams with ’80sproducer behind Milli Vanilli Brett O'Bourke KRTCAMPUS FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — When they talk about pop stars coming out of nowhere, they probably don’t mean from a Quizno’s in west Fort Lauderdale. But that’s where 19-year old singer Camille Smith is taking her lunch break, munching on a turkey-ranch sandwich, talking about her debut single “It’s Gotta Be You,” which, practically as she eats, is gaining rotation around the country. “99 JAMZ and Papa Keith on the Beat are playing it locally, it’s slowly climbing on countdowns in Connecticut and Corpus Christi, Texas, Funk Master Flex played it on his radio show in New York — people couldn’t believe it. It’s getting around,” said Camille (as an artist, she uses her first name only). Pretty good for a girl not even signed to a record label yet; “It has even surprised me,” said Camille’s producer, Evens St. Clair. “I didn’t expect people to take it this serious — next thing you know it’s getting picked up all over the place.” Camille’s cousin and business manager, Karl Lawrence, says the singer is a sure thing; not only is she talented and smart (she’s studying psychology and law at the University of Miami) but she understands the business. “Camille knows that being successful isn’t just about laying down great tracks,” Lawrence said. “She’s knows what package she needs to create. “ Camille says her sound is a mix between Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey (“I think I know every Mariah song there is,” she said) with a little Beyonce thrown in. Camille moved to New York from Jamaica with her mother and two sisters when she was 8. They didn’t stay in New York long, relocating to Fort Lauderdale to be closer to friends and family that lived in the area. She sang in church and in her school choir. When she was 15, a friend of her aunt introduced her to hip-hop manager Jimmy Henchman who, in August 2002, hooked Camille up with Frank Farian, the German producer who created Milli Vanilli. Farian was putting together a girl group called Gift. “I was with them for a year. All the other girls were so much older than me — it was a great learning experience. We had our own studio and I learned dance and choreography and how to write music.” At an audition for another girl group, this time at Sony, she met St. Clair. “He approached me and we started working together,” Camille said. “We started working on putting together a demo ... and I did showcases at clubs on (Miami) Beach like crobar, State and the Shore Club.” St. Clair said the first thing he did was get Camille a vocal coach, nutritionist and choreographer. Then he went about calling in favors and using connections he’s gained as a party promoter on Miami Beach to collect songs for the demo. One of his connections, Tricky Stewart, proved particularly valuable. Stewart has produced songs for artists like Madonna, Britney Spears and Blu Cantrell. St. Clair said rather than charge his typical fee of about $200,000, Stewart said he’d take his money on the back end. He had a fresh batch of songs headed to Jennifer Lopez, one of which was “It’s Gotta Be You.” “It took a whole day of battling with Tricky to get that song. But finally I snatched it from him,” St. Clair said. ^ “J.Lo passed on it so we ended up getting to keep it.” Camille and St. Clair headed up to Atlanta where Stewart produced the sessions that ultimately yielded “It’s Gotta Be You” and another song called “Baby Steps” in collaboration with writers producers J. Que, Pooh Bear, Tab and Zeek. Driving back in the car from Atlanta, listening to the final mix, it was so exciting,” Camille said. “I remember thinking — If I wasn’t me, I would like that. It’s so different than anything else. I was like wow — this is a hit. A People need to hear this.” * Apparently they have. From Corpus Christi to Connecticut, St. Clair said the song has enough radio spins to land Camille “a decent deal.” “It’s' getting to the point where it’s about time to start shopping around for record deals,” St. Clair said. “I’ll go on a tour of L.A. and New York and talk with the major labels and the indies that have major money. Sony is showing real strong interest as well ... it’s just a matter of time.” Meanwhile, Camille will be { starting her sophomore year of college next week. She’ll quit her summer job as an office assistant, move out of her mom’s house and back into the dorms. She says this year she’s looking forward to living in apartment-style housing, so no more sharing a bathroom with more than one other person. A boyfriend wouldn’t be bad, but she says college boys aren’t looking for relationships.