Camille Yarbrough Biography
Camille Yarbrough is an American singer, dancer, actress, poet, activist, television producer, and writer. She is best known for her song “Take Yo’ Praise,” which Fatboy Slim sampled on his 1998 single “Praise You.” “Take Yo’ Praise” was recorded in 1975 for Yarbrough’s debut album, The Iron Pot Cooker.
Camille Yarbrough Age
Camille was born on 8 January 1938, in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. She is 86 years old as of January 2024.
Camille Yarbrough Family- Siblings
Born in 1938, Yarbrough grew up on Chicago’s South Side. Her family had seven children, and she was the youngest In her teens, she performed with the Katherine Dunham Company.
Camille Yarbrough Career
She is best known for her song “Take Yo’ Praise,” which Fatboy Slim sampled on his 1998 single “Praise You.” “Take Yo’ Praise” was initially recorded in 1975 for Yarbrough’s debut album, The Iron Pot Cooker, which was released on Vanguard Records. Yarbrough said the song was intended to honor “all the people who had come through the black civil rights movement, who had stood up for truth and righteousness and justice, because human beings need to praise and respect one another more than they do” .The Iron Pot Cooker was based on a 1971 stage adaptation of Yarbrough’s one-woman spoken word show, Tales and Tunes of an African American Griot. She toured the country with this program in the 1970s and 1980s. Yarbrough’s second album.
Fatboy Slim’s 1999 single “Praise You” notably incorporates a vocal sample from the introduction of Yarbrough’s “Take Yo’ Praise”. In a 2021 interview with the website WhoSampled, Yarbrough stated that she loved “Praise You” and the use of her vocals, feeling that Norman Cook. Regarding her first album, journalist Kevin Powell wrote: “Without question, The Iron Pot Cooker is a precursor to Lauryn Hill’s best-seller The Mis-Education [sic] of Lauryn Hill.” Other reviews of this album include Billboard: “Yarbrough has stylish echoes of Nina Simone and Gil Scott-Heron, but her own style of singing and recitation… are outstanding.” SPIN: All of her tracks are thought-provoking. She earned the Coretta Scott King Award for her children’s book Cornrows, which she co-authored with illustrator Carole Byard in 1979.
Camille Yarbrough Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.
