Etta Cameron was born Ettamae Louvita Coakley on Crooked Island, Bahamas on November 21, 1939. She was a Bahamian–Danish singer who especially sang jazz and gospel and left her mark in the Danish music culture through her entire career from her arrival in Denmark in the 1970s. She was made a Knight of Dannebrog in 1997.
From 1967 till 1972, she lived in East Berlin which she used as a base for getting performance commitments in Eastern and Western Europe. Popular claims that she had lost her passport and was forced to stay in East Germany for five years have been proven wrong. While in East Germany she appeared in one DEFA western “Osceola” in 1970 where she sang as a saloon girl. In 1972, Cameron moved to Denmark.
Etta was also well known as one of the judges in the first two seasons of ‘Scenen er din’, the Danish version of the American TV show ‘Star Search’.
Her daughter Debbie Cameron, born in Miami, Florida, in 1958, also moved to Denmark in 1978, where she, too, established a musical career, not least representing Denmark twice in the Eurovision Song Contest, in 1979 and 1981 along with Tommy Seebach.
Etta Cameron died in Århus, Denmark from cancer on March 4, 2010. She was 70.
CAMERON Etta (Ettamae Louvita Coakley)
[11/21/1939, Crooked Island, Bahamas, British West Indies - 3/4/2010, Århus,
Denmark (cancer)] – singer, actress married to ? Cameron (195?-196?) mother of
singer, songwriter, musician Steve Cameron (Steven Andre Cameron) [1956- ], actress, singer Debbie Cameron (Deborah
Elois Cameron) [1958- ], awarded
knight of the Order of the Dannebrog [1997].
Osceola 1970 [sings “saloon song”]
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