Tamara Champlin is an American singer-songwriter who started her career as a session singer in Houston, Texas, later moving to Los Angeles.
17 Facts About Tamara Champlin
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Tamara Champlin has performed with and written for singers such as Elton John, Leon Russell, Nicky Hopkins, Steve Lukather, Andreas Carlsson, husband Bill Champlin, and son Will Champlin.
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Tour dates from 2010 to 2016 with Bill Champlin included California, Europe, Hawaii, Japan, South America, Kuwait and Iraq.
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Tamara Champlin's career began as a Gilley's Club dancer and singer with Becky Bauch Williams in the movie Urban Cowboy, followed by singing credits on Elton John's album The Fox in 1981, and future husband Bill Champlin's album Runaway.
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Tamara Champlin went on her first road trip to South Africa in 1981, as part of Rita Coolidge's band.
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Tamara Champlin was a background vocalist on Peter Cetera's album World Falling Down.
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Tamara Champlin performed a duet on a Bill Champlin-Greg Mathieson tune "Love Is Gonna find You", featured on Bill Champlin's "He Started To Sing".
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On Chicago's "What's It Gonna Be Santa" Christmas Release she and husband Bill Tamara Champlin contributed a co-write that he sang: "Bethlehem".
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Son, Will Tamara Champlin, became part of this writing team in 2004 and the trio wrote many songs that featured Will as the vocalist for his first 3 albums.
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Will Tamara Champlin later went on to be part of Heather Headley's Grammy Award Winning Album "Audience of One" and was a Season 5 finalist on The Voice.
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Tamara Champlin was on a sold-out tour in Scandinavia that featured Leon Russell, Bill Champlin, Joe Williams, and Peter Friestedt, and again in 2016, as part of the Champlin Williams Friestedt tour in Europe and Japan.
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Tamara Champlin was involved with the group of musicians, including husband Bill and son Will, organized by Lone Wolf Entertainment in 2011, that traveled to Iraq and Kuwait to entertain US Forces stationed there.
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In 2014, she and Bill Tamara Champlin were part of a performance at Riverside, California, in support of the Lone Survivor Foundation, dedicated to assisting wounded American service members and their families.
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Tamara Champlin was associated with Eddie Tuduri's Rhythmic Arts Project that helps children with learning disabilities and, in 2017, was part of their 20th anniversary show, where she performed a duet with Michael McDonald.
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Tamara Champlin has worked with Saving K-9 Lives, founded by Jasmine and Bobby Kimball, and been part of concert performances for that organization.
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Tamara Champlin is married to Bill Champlin, and the couple has a son Will.
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Tamara Champlin has two step-children from her husband's prior marriage, Bradford Raymond Champlin and Amy Jo Kelly.