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Infobox musical artist |name = Jeremy Camp|image = Jeremy Camp Wonderland.jpg|caption = Jeremy Camp performing in June 2006|background = solo_singer|birth_name = Jeremy Thomas Camp|alias =|birth_date = birth date and age|1978|01|12|death_date =|origin = Lafayette, Indiana|instrument =|genre = Contemporary Christian music Christian rock |occupation = Musician, songwriter, author|years_active = 2000–present|label = BEC Recordings |associated_acts =|website = http://www.jeremycamp.com/ Jeremy Thomas Camp (born January 12, 1978) is a contemporary Christian music ian from Lafayette, Indiana. Camp has released seven albums, four of them RIAA Certification|RIAA -certified as Gold album|Gold and two are live albums, and 17 number-one hit songs.cite web |url= http://www.jesusfreakhideout.com/news/2008/12/03.JEREMY%20CAMPS%20ALBUM%20CHARTS%20ON%20BILLBOARD%20200%20WITH%20PERSONAL%20BEST%20DEBUT.asp |title=Jeremy Camp's Album Charts On Billboard 200 with Personal Best Debut |publisher= Jesus Freak Hideout |date=December 3, 2008 |accessdate=December 12, 2008 His original music is a mixture of ballads and rock.
Early life
Jeremy Camp was born on January 12, 1978 in Lafayette, Indiana .cite web |url=Allmusic|class=artist|id=p542070/biography|pure_url=yes |title=Jeremy Camp Biography |publisher= Allmusic |accessdate=October 13, 2008 |author=Mark Deming His father Tom, the pastor at Harvest Chapel (a Calvary Chapel church in Lafayette), taught him how to play guitar . After completing high school, Camp attended a Calvary Chapel Bible College in Southern California for two years. After one of the worship leaders heard him play in the kitchen of the school he urged Camp to become a part of the worship team. Soon he led worship and played all over Southern California.
Musical career
Camp has scored fourteen No. 1 Christian music hits (six from his first album, Stay (Jeremy Camp album)|Stay ). His first single was "Understand". He has made nine music videos: "Understand", "Walk By Faith", "Take You Back", "Tonight", "Give You Glory", "Let It Fade", "I Am Willing",a song which was not included on any of his albums, "Speaking Louder Than Before", and "The Way". He also has video devotionals for several songs on YouTube and GodTube. He has also released a DVD ( In24 ) which chronicles a regular day on tour. Live Unplugged from Franklin, TN also includes a DVD of the concert, which was recorded for the live album. He also has scored a musical number " This Man (song)|This Man " and his video can be seen on YouTube . This video was made with clips from the movie The Passion of the Christ .
2005
Jeremy scored Christian music top spots for "Take You Back" and "Lay Down My Pride". He also was voted the Best Male Artist in the 2005 Reader’s Choice Music Awards in the Christianity Today magazine. Camp was also ASCAP 2005 Songwriter of the Year and won the Dove Award for the Male Vocalist of the Year for the second consecutive year. In 2005 he recorded the song "Open Up Your Eyes" for the compilation release Music Inspired by the Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe , a September 2005 album which contained original songs written by various Christian artists for the 2005 film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe . Camp closed the year with both Stay (Jeremy Camp album)|Stay and Carried Me|Carried Me: the Worship Project being Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA -certified as Gold.cite web |url= http://www.top40-charts.com/news.php? nid=19691& string=K%203 |title=Jeremy Camp Closes '05 With Double Gold / Song Of The Year |publisher=Top40-Charts.com |date=January 6, 2006 |accessdate=October 22, 2008 He also collaborated with Christian hip hop|Christian rapper KJ-52 on his album Behind the Musik (A Boy Named Jonah) , singing the chorus on the song "Right Here."
2006
Jeremy earned the top honors at the Twenty-Eighth Annual ASCAP Music Awards, winning the Songwriter Of The Year award ("Take You Back" and "This Man"). "Take You Back" also earned him the Song Of The Year award. Jeremy won two 2006 CCM Reader's Choice Awards, for Favorite Artist and Favorite Male Artist. Jeremy took part in winning the GMA Music Awards|Dove award for Special Event Album Of The Year, which went to Music Inspired by The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe . He released a special edition of his hit album, Restored . Four new songs were included on Restored: The Deluxe Gold Edition as well as a letter to his fans.
Jeremy went back into the studio to record Beyond Measure in the spring. The album was released on October 31, 2006. Camp is also credited as producer for his wife's album titled ''Don't Wait , which was released in September, 2006.
2007
"Tonight", the first single from the album Beyond Measure , was released in mid-August, and eventually hit No. 1 on Christian contemporary hit radio . It was the 11th most played single on HR stations in 2007.cite web |url= http://www.radioandrecords.com/Formats/Charts/YearEnd/07/Christian_CHR_songs.asp |title=2007 Year End Charts |publisher= R& R (magazine)|R& R |accessdate=January 6, 2008 "Give Me Jesus," the third single off "Beyond Measure," made it into the top 5 on Inspirational radio. The fourth single, "Give You Glory," debuted on Jewish AJ radio at No. 16. His song "Let it Fade" was the seventh most played song on HR radio in 2007. That year he also released a two disc (CD and DVD) for his concert tour " Live Unplugged (Jeremy Camp album)|Live Unplugged " recorded in Franklin, Tennessee
2008& ndash;2009
His song "No Matter What" was the 4th most-played song on R& R (magazine)|R& R magazine's Contemporary Christian Music|Christian CHR chart for 2008. http://www.radioandrecords.com/Formats/Charts/YearEnd/08/Christian_CHR_songs.asp 2008 Year End Charts/Top Christian CHR songs, R& R (magazine)|R& R magazine , Retrieved January 6, 2009He also came out with his new studio album Speaking Louder Than Before , containing the hit lead single There Will Be a Day . On November 17, 2009, Jeremy Camp released another live album, entitled Jeremy Camp Live . This album featured songs from all albums to date. His Speaking Louder Than Before album was nominated for a Grammy , his first ever Grammy nomination.
2010-present
In January 2010, Jeremy Camp announced he was working on a new worship album with Brown Bannister . Beyond Measure was certified as Gold by the RIAA. The new worship album, We Cry Out , was released on August 24.
Camp was also a judge for the 10th annual The Independent Music Awards|Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers. http://www.independentmusicawards.com/ima_new/pastjudges.asp Independent Music Awards - Past Judges
On May 20, 2011, Camp released his first book I Still Believe . The book is about Camp's life, illuminating on his childhood, the loss of his first wife, and to where God has brought him now.cite web|title=Jeremy Camp Pens His Personal Story, I Still Believe|url= http://www.todayschristianmusic.com/artists/jeremy-camp/news/jeremy-camp-pens-his-personal-story-i-still-believe/|publisher=Today's Christian Music|date=14 July 2011|accessdate=20 January 2012
Personal life
Camp and his first wife, Melissa Lynn Henning-Camp (born October 7, 1979), were married on October 21, 2000.cite web |url= http://www.melissacamp.com/main.php |title=Melissa Lynn Camp |publisher=Melissacamp.com |accessdate=October 13, 2008 She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and died on February 5, 2001, when he was 23 and she was 21. Some of his early songs reflect the emotional ordeal of her illness. " I Still Believe (Jeremy Camp song)|I Still Believe " was the first song he wrote after her death. "Walk By Faith" was written during their honeymoon. http://www.interlinc-online.com/artists/index.html? p=2& id=69& PHPSESSID=5e87a2a33c2586c2632f15e4d9fb6b13 Jeremy Camp - First Marriage
In December 2003, he married Adrienne Camp|Adrienne Liesching , former frontwoman for The Benjamin Gate (band)|The Benjamin Gate . They have two daughters and one son: Isabella Rose Camp (born September 25, 2004), Arianne Mae Camp (born April 5, 2006),cite web|title=Jeremy Camp: Author of I Still Believe|url= http://christianbookpreviews.com/christian-book-author.php? isbn=0615468667|publisher=Christian Book Previews|accessdate=21 January 2012 and Egan Thomas Camp (born August 17, 2011).cite web|title=Jeremy Camp welcomes new son|url= http://breathecast.christianpost.com/Christian.Music.Artist-Francesca.Battistelli/Article-764_5453.htm|publisher=BreatheCast|date=24 August 2011|accessdate=21 January 2012 In 2009 Adrienne and Jeremy Camp had announced that they were expecting a child, but three months into her pregnancy Adrienne lost the baby. http://www.air1.com/BLOG/post/2009/08/22/Sad-Jeremy-Camp-News.aspx Sad Jeremy Camp News Camp is also an ordained minister (Christianity)|minister .cite journal |last=Cowart |first=Jeremy |year=2007 |month=February |title=Love Beyond Measure |journal= CCM Magazine |volume=29 |issue=8 |pages=32–35
Discography
Studio albums
Year
Album details
Peak chart positions
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2001
Burden Me
Released: 2000
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2002
Stay (Jeremy Camp album)
Released: September 24, 2002
Label: BEC Recordings
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2004
Carried Me
Released: February 10, 2004
Label: BEC Recordings
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Restored
Released: November 16, 2004
Label: BEC Recordings
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2006
Beyond Measure
Released: October 31, 2006
Label: BEC Recordings
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2008
Speaking Louder Than Before
Released: November 25, 2008
Label: BEC Recordings
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2010
We Cry Out: The Worship Project
Released: August 24, 2010
Label: BEC Recordings
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Live albums
Year
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2005
Live Unplugged (Jeremy Camp album)
Released: November 8, 2005
Label: BEC Recordings
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US: 2x Platinum
2009
Jeremy Camp Live
Released: November 17, 2009
Label: BEC Recordings
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2007
Live Session EP (Jeremy Camp album)
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Compilation appearances
Year
Song Title
Album Title
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2002
" Understand (Jeremy Camp song)
Festival Con Dios 2002, Vol. 2
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2003
" I Still Believe (Jeremy Camp song)
WOW Hits 2004
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2004
"Here I Am To Worship"
Empty Me, Vol. 1
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2004
"Empty Me"
Empty Me, Vol. 1
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2004
"How Great Is Your Love"
Maranatha Friends
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2004
" Right Here (Jeremy Camp song)
WOW Hits 2005
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2005
"I Wait For The Lord"
X Worship 2006
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2005
" Take You Back (song)
WOW Hits 2006
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2005
"Open Up Your Eyes"
Music Inspired by The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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2006
" This Man (song)
WOW Hits 2007
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2007
"Empty Me"
Worship Together: Favorites
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2007
"It Is Well"
Music Inspired By the Motion Picture Amazing Grace
Performed with Adrienne Camp
2007
" Right Here (Jeremy Camp song)
Music from and Inspired By Bridge to Terabithia
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2007
"What It Means"
WOW Hits 2008
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2008
"Give You Glory"
WOW Hits 1
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2008
" Let It Fade "
WOW Hits 2009
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2009
" There Will Be a Day "
WOW Hits 2010
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2010
"Healing Hand of God"
WOW Hits 2011
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2011
"Move In Me (Paul)"
Music Inspired by The Story
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Singles
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2002
" Right Here (Jeremy Camp song)
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"Beautiful One"
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2005
"Lay Down My Pride"
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" This Man (song)
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Live Unplugged
"Stay"
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"My Desire"
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"Let Everything That"
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2007
" Tonight (Jeremy Camp song)
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Beyond Measure
"Give You Glory"
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2008
"We Remember"
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" There Will Be a Day "
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Speaking Louder Than Before
2009
"Speaking Louder Than Before"
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"Healing Hand of God"
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2010
"Jesus Saves"
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We Cry Out: The Worship Project
2011
"The Way"
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2012
"Overcome"
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Awards
GMA Dove Award wins
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GMA Dove Award wins and nominations
Year
Award
Result
2004
Male Vocalist of the Year
won
Pop/ Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year ("I Still Believe")
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2005
Stay ")
won
2006
Male Vocalist of the Year
nom
Restored )
nom
Rock Recorded Song of the Year ("Lay Down My Pride")
nom
2007
Recorded Music Packaging of the Year ( Beyond Measure )
won
Live Unplugged )
nom
2008
Inspirational Recorded Song of the Year ("Give Me Jesus")
nom
2009
2010
Pop/ Contemporary Album of the Year ( Speaking Louder Than Before )
nom
2011
Recorded Music Packaging of the Year ( We Cry Out: The Worship Project - Deluxe Edition )
nom
References
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External links
http://www.jeremycamp.com Official website
http://www.purevolume.com/jeremycamp Jeremy Camp on PureVolume
Jeremy Camp Persondata | NAME =Camp, Jeremy | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH =January 12, 1978 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Camp, Jeremy Category:1978 births Category:Living people Category:American male singers Category:American performers of Christian music Category:Musicians from Indiana
