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Camille Houssière (born 22 May 1992), better known as Camille Lou, is a French singer and actress. She is well known for her roles in musicals, including '' 1789: Les Amants de la Bastille'' in the role of Olympe, and '' La Légende du roi Arthur'' in the role of Reine Guenièvre.


Early life

Camille Lou was born 22 May 1992 in
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. Her father was a singer and guitarist for a band named Paradoxe, thus she and her two older sisters were exposed to music at a young age, each later learning to play an instrument. Camille played the violin. At the age of twelve, she won a local singing competition, ''les Voix de Noël'' ("Christmas voices"), in
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. She attended lycée Notre-Dame de Grâce in Maubeuge. After having obtained her baccalaureate she attended the
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to study law.


Solo career

In January 2010, with the help of her guitar teacher at the time, Camille began her solo career under the pseudonym Jimmie. She began to sing and completed her first album ''La Grande Aventure'', in pop-folk style. She made many appearances under her pseudonym, notably for her work on
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's album in March 2010. On 15 September 2017, she released the single "Self Control".


Musicals

Being friends with fellow singers
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, she was encouraged by the latter to sing in front of
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, a musical producer with whom Resende and Rim had both worked on ''Mozart, l'opéra rock''. While attending a Parisian restaurant one evening, Camille and her family by chance were there at the same time as musical producer Dove Attia and singers from ''Mozart, l'opéra rock''. Camille was encouraged by Rim to sing ''Falling Slowly'' from the film ''
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'' in front of Attia. Despite Camille having little prior experience in musical theatre, Attia was impressed and invited Camille to audition for his next musical. She sang a collection of songs from ''Mozart, l'opéra rock'' among others and finally in 2011, she won the role of Olympe, servant of
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in the musical '' 1789: Les Amants de la Bastille''. Camille starred in the role for two runs of the show at the
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in Paris as well as the 2012 tour around the country. In 2014,
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proposed the role of Guenièvre (Guinivere) to Camille in his new musical, '' La Légende du roi Arthur'', also featuring
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's
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's Morgane (Morgana). The musical was first performed on 17 September 2015 at
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and toured France in 2016. Camille appears in her role in music videos for "Mon combat (Tir Nam Beo)", "Quelque chose de magique", and "Auprès d'un autre" (the latter also features peaks at the activity behind the scenes).


Other projects

In December 2014, she recorded a song for the album ''We Love Disney'' with Garou, a cover of the song "
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" from the Disney film of the same name. She participated in the album '' Forever Gentlemen Volume 2'' singing a cover of "La soleil de ma vie" with Amir. She also was featured in a photoshoot for
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. Following '' 1789: Les Amants de la Bastille'', she became dedicated to her solo projects but also equally to her band composed of five singers that performed in ''Les Chansons d'abord'' at the side of
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, broadcast each Sunday at 5 pm on France 3. Camille was cast as Hélène Barignet in Emmanuel Fricero's film ''Marché noir''. In 2016, she took part in season 7 of the French version of ''
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'' partnered with Grégoire Lyonnet, finishing in second place.


Danse avec les stars

In 2016, she participated in the seventh season of ''
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'' – the French version of ''
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''. She was partnered with professional dancer Grégoire Lyonnet. On 16 December 2016, during the final, they finished runners-up to and his partner Denitsa Ikonomova by getting 46% of the votes. In week 3, the public give a note to each couples.


Filmography


Television

* 2018-2020 : ''Les Bracelets rouges ( fr)'' - Aurore (12 episodes) * 2018 : ''Maman a tort ( fr)'' - Angélique "Angie" Fontaine (6 episodes) * 2019 : '' Le Bazar de la Charité'' - Alice de Jeansin (8 episodes) * 2021-2023 : ''Je te promets ( fr)'', French remake of US TV series
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'' - Mel (3 episodes) * 2022 : ''
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(Limited series) - Giovanna DeLuca (6 episodes)


Film

* 2012 : '' 1789: Les Amants de la Bastille'' (Filming of the stage musical) - Olympe du Puget, governess to Louis Joseph,
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* 2015 : '' La Légende du roi Arthur'' (Filming of the stage musical) - Queen
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* 2019 : ''Jusqu'ici tout va bien ( fr)'' - Élodie * 2020 : ''Play ( fr)'' - Fanny * 2021 : '' Spoiled Brats ( fr)'' - Stella Bartek * 2023 : ''Our Tiny Little Wedding ( fr)'' - Lou * 2023 : ''
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References


External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Camille Lou 1992 births Living people Pop rock singers Musicians from Nord (French department) Lou, Camille French folk-pop singers 21st-century French singers 21st-century French women singers