Nini Camps performing with Antigone Rising in 2016

Nini Camps is an American folk rock singer-songwriter.[1][2] She writes music for films and TV shows, and also performs as the lead singer of the all-female band Antigone Rising. She currently lives with her family in New York City.

Biography

Nini Camps was born and raised in Miami, Florida. In her beginnings as a solo artist, Camps performed at clubs including The Bitter End, The Mercury Lounge, and The Living Room.

Camps has published three independent releases. She has participated in a national tour with Los Lonely Boys, performed at Madison Square Garden with Joan Osborne, and went on a stadium tour as an ambassador for the United States during the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany.

Camps won Billboard's Songwriter Award and was Spin's Top 5 singer-songwriter for her self-released album, "So Long". In 2005, she signed with Cherry Lane Music Publishing. Camps has over 50 TV, commercial, and film placements, including songs on Brothers and Sisters, Castle, Pretty Little Liars, The Hills, Army Wives, Degrassi: The Next Generation, which features an unreleased song "Come Away" at the end of episode "Lost in Love Part 2", Pantene, Paseo Paper, Sydney White, and end credits for Ramona and Beezus. Camps continues to write and record in New York City and in her home studio. After Cherry Lane closed its doors, Camps continued working in music publishing at Razor and Tie.

In August 2009, Camps joined the all-female band Antigone Rising as the new lead singer and rhythm guitarist. The band released a studio CD in August 2011 called 23 Red, funded through over $40,000 of fan donations, enabling the band to create their own record label, Rising Shine Records. 23 Red is distributed through Joan Jett's Blackheart Record label (MMD). Beginning in October 2011, Starbucks worldwide featured "Everywhere is Home" & "Gracefully" from 23 Red in their regular in-store rotation.

Discography

  • Love Pie
  • So Long
  • Driving You Out

References

  1. ↑ Henderson, Kristen; Ellis, Sarah Kate; Ellis, Sarah (April 5, 2011). Times Two: Two Women in Love and the Happy Family They Made. Simon and Schuster. pp. 192–. ISBN 978-1-4391-7640-5. Retrieved August 2, 2011.
  2. ↑ Pye, Brent (November 22, 2004). "Nini Camps: Woman On Fire". Glide magazine. Retrieved August 2, 2011.
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