Cherie Camp is a Canadian musician.[1] She is most noted as cowriter with John Welsman of "Oh Love", a song from the film Nurse.Fighter.Boy which won the Genie Award for Best Original Song at the 30th Genie Awards.[2]
The daughter of journalist Dalton Camp,[3] she studied music and theatre at Queen's University before starting her musical career in the late 1970s with Welsman and Jeff Kahnert in a folk band called Available Space.[1] Kahnert left the band in 1980, and their style then evolved toward jazz and blues music.[1] In 1982, she had an acting role in Necessary Angel Theatre's production of Richard Wolfe's play Passchendaele.[4]
In 1983 she released a self-titled pop album on WEA Records.[5] In this era, Liam Lacey of The Globe and Mail wrote that Camp was an excellent songwriter, but that she lacked authority and charisma as a performer.[6]
In the late 1980s Camp performed backing vocals on Jane Siberry's albums The Walking and Bound by the Beauty, acted in Siberry's short film The Bird in the Gravel[7] and Peter Mettler's feature film The Top of His Head, and performed vocals for some music in Patricia Rozema's film White Room.[8] In the early 1990s, she performed with Gwen Swick and Shirley Eikhard in the trio The Three Marias.[9]
By the 2000s she had largely retired from the music business, but remained an occasional songwriting collaborator with Welsman. In 2024 she released Love and Blood, her second full-length album.[10]