Cameron has his teeth firmly entrenched in performing

Earlier this year I spoke to performer and musician Cameron Daddo on the launch of his album ’Behind the Shed’. Cameron was also preparing for his role in musical ‘The Sound of Music’.

Cameron is forever thankful for the role that gave him his great break in the entertainment industry, as host of The Perfect Match when he was barely out of his teens, making him the youngest ever host of a television show. However, Perfect Match was 30 years ago and Cameron has notched up an incredibly diverse resume in his career since then.

It all started, literally, when he was a baby, working as a model he posed as a calendar bunny. He returned to modelling incidentally as an 18 year old when he entered a modelling agency to use the phone and exited with a modelling contract.

In the intervening years Cameron has become a star of musical theatre playing Huck Finn in Big River, worked in LA for many years in such programs as ‘Models Inc’, ‘The West Wing’ and ‘The Mentalist’. Cameron returned to Australia to perform in ‘Legally Blonde’ on stage and now in his present production of ‘The Sound of Music’.

If all of that doesn’t offer enough eclecticism Cameron also is a radio presenter as co-host with Marcia Hines on Smooth FM. Cameron tells me he enjoys all forms of artistic expression.

At the moment that mode of expression is music and he is showcasing his new album ‘Songs from the Shed’, featuring the single ‘George’. The album also includes a duet with Max Merritt on his classic ‘Slipping Away’.

Yet ironically enough, Cameron, considering his Renaissance man reach in the area of the arts, originally studied the sciences with the aim to pursue a career in dentistry.

‘Songs from the Shed’ is available now by Camal Records via Sony Music Australia.
Paula Xiberras