Camille Te Nahu

aka Camille French


New Zealand country singer Camille Te Nahu’s soft, velvety voice became highly prized by a raft of Australia’s top recording stars after her arrival there in 1999, before she took centre-stage on albums with her guitarist-producer husband Stuie French.

She had already proved a formidable talent in her own country, winning amateur trophies and appearing on television on her own and with Eddie Low. When one of her prizes included a trip to the Tamworth Country Music Festival, it was enough to convince Camille her future laid across the ditch.

The French Family Band, April 2024: Sonny, Camille and Stuie.
Camille French on stage in the US, 2023.
Camille Te Nahu and Stuie French, 2016.
Photo credit: Cat Brown
Camille and Stuie - Things Change (2012)
Sweet Dreams documentary, 2000: New Zealand country music on Norfolk Island
Camille Te Nahu and Stuie French, 2016. 
Photo credit: Cat Brown
Country music identity and journalist Bob Howe presents Camille and Stuie with the 2014 Frank Ifield International Spur Award at the Canterbury-Hurlstone Park RSL Club, Sydney.
Photo credit: Bob Howe
Camille Te Nahu at the Country Music Star Awards, Tauranga, in the late 1990s.
Photo credit: Camille Te Nahu collection
Camille Te Nahu at the Country Music Star Awards, Tauranga, in the late 1990s. 
Photo credit: Camille Te Nahu collection
Recovered, 2006
Camille Te Nahu & Stuie French - Without You
Camille Te Nahu in the 1990s.
Photo credit: Camille Te Nahu collection
Camille Te Nahu, 2002
American country music superstar Vince Gill singing backing vocals for Camille Te Nahu, Nashville, July 2014.
Photo credit: Camille Te Nahu collection
Tahi, 2016
The cream of Australia’s country musicians combined as house band at the Golden Guitar Awards, Tamworth, January 2017. Left to right: Bill Risby, Michel Rose, Stuie French, Mitch Farmer, Camille Te Nahu, Brendan Radford, James Gillard, Glen Hannah.
Photo credit: Greg Sylvia
The French Family Band performing Snowbird for their Grand Ole Opry debut in Nashville, Tennessee (March 2023)
American country music superstar Vince Gill singing backing vocals for Camille Te Nahu, Nashville, July 2014.
Photo credit: Camille Te Nahu collection
Camille and Stuie with their Golden Guitars for Alternative Country Album of the Year for Big Years & Little Days, Tamworth, January 2013.
Photo credit: Greg Sylvia
A young Camille Te Nahu on stage in Gisborne in the 1980s.
Photo credit: Camille Te Nahu collection
Twenty-two-year-old Camille Te Nahu with her prizes from the Gore Gold Guitar Awards, 1998. Part of the prize was the trip to Australia that changed her life.
Photo credit: Camille Te Nahu collection
Camille and Stuie - Waves (Live from Rancom Street Studio)
Not Without You, 2005
Camille Te Nahu - Unsung Heroes of Maori Music
The French Family Band, February 2023: Camille, Sonny and Stuie.
Camille Te Nahu and Brendan Radford in the Golden Guitar Awards backing band, January 2016
Camille and Stuie - Maori Woman (Songwriters in the Round, Club Menai, 12 December 2012)
The French Family Band - I Hung It Up live at The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee (August, 2023)
The French Family Band, February 2023: Sonny, Camille and Stuie.
Big Days DVD, 2013
Big Days, 2012
Camille and Stuie - Little Years (Live from Rancom Street Studio)
Camille and Stuie - Satin Sheets (with The Time Jumpers at the 3rd & Lindsley, featuring Vince Gill and Joe Spivey on BVs, July, 2014)
Camille Te Nahu and Stuie French, 2016. 
Photo credit: Cat Brown
Camille Te Nahu in the mid-1980s.
Photo credit: Camille Te Nahu collection
The French Family Band play Four Strong Winds live from home (May 2020)
A young Camille Te Nahu in action in the 1980s.
Photo credit: Camille Te Nahu collection
The French Family Band perform Daddy Sang Bass from home (2021)
The French Family Band - Things Change live at The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee (December 2023)
Camille Te Nahu and Stuie French - Panhandle Rag (with the Time Jumpers at the 3rd & Lindsley, July, 2014)
Camille and Stuie - Beverley Joy (2012)
Camille Te Nahu on stage in the 1990s.
Photo credit: Camille Te Nahu collection
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