Cam Biography

The American country music performer known as Cam was born Camaron Marvel Ochs in 1984. Cam grew up in the suburbs of San Francisco, and also spent a good part of her childhood on her grandparents’ ranch, where she developed her love for country music. Throughout Cam’s high school years, she studied music and performed regularly, often with her school’s choir.

While attending the University of California at Davis, Cam participated in an a capella group with the school, and further honed her guitar interests. Although she planned on pursuing a degree in psychology, personal reflection convinced Cam that she might regret not pursuing a career as a musician if she didn’t at least try. So she signed with an independent label and released her debut album, Heartforward, in 2010.

The album was moderately successful, but wasn’t quite Cam’s big breakthrough. So she moved to Los Angeles to begin working on more demos, and some of her early writings made their way to such notable performers as Maggie Rose and Miley Cyrus. After spending a year in Los Angeles, Cam moved to Nashville and continued to write, while also launching a Kickstarter campaign to fund her next studio album.

Cam’s big breakthrough came with her single, “Burning House,” which arrived in 2015. The song rose to the top five on the country charts and made Cam one of the year’s best-selling singles, bringing the young rising artist a Grammy Award nomination in 2016. Cam’s debut album, Untamed, arrived in late 2015 and debuted at number two on the country charts, becoming one of the best selling country debuts of the year.

Since that time, Cam’s career has been on the rise, with no sign of slowing down. Her most recent single is “Mayday,” released in early 2016.