Country Singer Cam to Appear in Macy's THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE

Acclaimed singer/songwriter Cam will be sharing her holidays with millions this Thursday, November 23, as she appears in the 91st Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, one of America's favorite seasonal spectaculars. During the two-and-one-half mile parade route on 34th Street in New York City, the Grammy, CMA, ACM, CMT and AMA nominated artist will ride the Domino Sugar float, and, perform her new single, "Diane," which will be telecast on NBC.

This week "Diane," a preview of new music from Cam's forthcoming 2018 Arista Nashville/RCA Records album, arrives at country radio. Officially impacting radio on Monday, December 4, the new single was co-written by Cam, Jeff Bhasker, and Tyler Johnson, the team behind her Platinum-certified #1 smash, "Burning House," which remains the most-downloaded song by a female country artist released since 2015. Bhasker (Harry Styles, Ed Sheeran, Bruno Mars) and Johnson (Harry Styles, Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran) also produced "Diane," as they did Cam's widely acclaimed 2015 major-label album debut, Untamed.

Inspired by the storyline of Dolly Parton's classic "Jolene," the driving, tempo-rich track "Diane" was described as "the exhilarating first taste of her upcoming second LP" in a recent Cam feature in Rolling Stone Country. As the article expounded, "The confessional tale from the perspective of a remorseful woman as she reveals to her ex's wife that she was unaware he was married while they were involved, 'Diane' bounces along to a carefree beat - think vintage ABBA/Fleetwood Mac - but at its darker heart is an earnest plea for understanding, forgiveness and female solidarity."

In a recent People.com interview, Cam explains the importance of the message of "Diane." "The truth is, there are so many people that have gone through this that I know. There's such a weird stigma that you can't talk about this because it either reflects badly on you or you feel vulnerable, you're supposed to suffer in silence or if you see it from the outside, you're not supposed to tell. I wrote it because this is the apology and the forthrightness that I think people deserve from each other."

California-born singer/songwriter Cam emerged as one of the true breakthrough artists of the past two years, achieving her first Platinum record and first #1 country single with "Burning House," which earned her a GRAMMY® Award nomination for Best Country Solo Performance. In fact, she was the only female country act to release a song in 2015 and amass a million downloads by the end of the year. The success also sparked Cam to six nominations for the 2016 Academy of Country Music Awards (most-nominated female), two nods for the American Country Countdown Awards and three nominations for the CMT Music Awards (tied for most-nominated artist), two nominations for the 50th Annual CMA Awards, and one for the 2016 American Music Awards. Her Untamed album on Arista Nashville/RCA Records, which released December 11, 2015, debuted at #2 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart with the year's best first-week album sales by a debut country artist. Untamed was met with widespread critical acclaim from The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, PEOPLE, Associated Press, and many others. Cam, who co-wrote each of her 11 debut album tracks, has appeared on national TV programs including Good Morning America, Today, CBS This Morning, The Voice, The Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Talk, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, LIVE with Kelly, The Grammys, ACM Awards, and The 10th ACM Honors CBS special (with Alicia Keys). In addition to completing her first headline concert series, 2016's The Burning House Tour, this rising country star opened two major 2016 tours: Brad Paisley's Crushin' It Tour and Dierks Bentley's Somewhere on a Beach Tour. The Apple Music Festival 2015 in London, Stagecoach, SXSW, ACM Lifting Lives Party for a Cause, CMA Music Festival, the Grand Ole Opry, and the C2C Festival in the UK and Ireland are among the many events in which Cam has participated over the past two years.

Photo Credit: Dennis Leupold

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