Singer, actress, political spokesperson, fashion model, modeling agency owner, and entertainer
Years active
1980-2013
Musical artist
Henemark (standing fifth from left) joined other celebrities in Stockholm to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mae West in 1993.
Camilla Maria Henemark (born 23 October 1964[1]), also known as La Camilla, is a Swedish singer, actress, political spokesperson, and former fashion model.
Biography
Henemark was born in Stockholm, to a Nigerian father and a Swedish mother.[2] She started her modelling career in her teens and later had her own modeling agency.[citation needed] Henemark started her career in music in 1985 by joining Alexander Bard in his Barbie project as Katanga. That project morphed into the group Army of Lovers, and soon Henemark, using the stage name "La Camilla", became the face of the group.[citation needed] After two albums (and at least one public fight) with the group, she left and began a solo career.[citation needed] She released several singles that failed to achieve commercial success, and recorded at least one album that was never released (called Temper).[citation needed] Henemark then rejoined Army of Lovers in 1995 for their Les Greatest Hits album, in 2000 for their Le Grand Docu-Soap and in 2013 reunion album Big Battle of Egos, working with them on some of their most recent recordings until being fired and replaced by another former female member, Dominika Peczynski.[citation needed]
On 3 November 2010 the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet published excerpts from a book about the Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf, Den motvillige monarken ("The Reluctant Monarch"), claiming that he had a year-long love affair with Henemark in the late 1990s.[3]
