Singer,Activist, Lecturer, Actress Camille Yarbrough

Rainbow Soul

Host Deardra Shuler talks with singer/lecturer Camille Yarbrough who is an award-winning performance artist, author, and cultural activist. With a career that spans over sixty years, several continents, countless awards and accolades, and a few generations, Nana Camille has earned legendary status. Her long running TV Show (Ancestor House), via her popular musical CD (also entitled Ancestor House). Her performances and lectures focus on poetry, music, Black art, spirituality, and culture. She toured with the Katherine Dunham Company of Dancers, Singers, and Musicians. She taught African Dance and community courses at the CUNY. An accomplished theater actress, she co-starred/toured in Lorraine Hansberry’s To Be Young, Gifted, and Black and did a national tour "God’s Trombones",and danced, sang and acted in the Broadway Musical, Kwamina.She appeared in the soap operas:Where the Heart Is, Search For Tomorrow, Television Special; Soul, CBS Special; Caught in the Middle and Gil Noble’s Like It Is. She also toured in her one-woman show; Tales and Tunes of an African American Griot. ,