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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
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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
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Special to THE GAMECOCK
Pop star Camille Smith, who hails from Florida, teamed up with producer Frank Farian to define her
funky sound. 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.