Camaron Ochs

The Grammy-winner behind songs by artists as varied as Kanye West, Taylor Swift, the Rolling Stones, Beyonce, and Fun. spills his secrets

Jeff Bhasker was somewhere in Salt Lake City trying to come up with a song. “I was with Pink and Nate Ruess from Fun., who had a day off from his tour. We got together just to see what would happen,” he remembers from his Los Angeles-area studio. “I started playing something on the piano, Nate started singing along to it, and Pink was typing away on her iPad.” Bhasker said it was a “hyper group effort,” the result of which found its way onto Pink’s album The Truth About Love and turned into the smash hit single “Just Give Me a Reason,” the latest in a string of countless worldwide hits Bhasker has accumulated over the years. “It’s really easy writing with Nate because all we do is react to each other,” he explains.

Whatever process Bhasker and Ruess has, it seems to be working; their first collaboration was the generation-defining track “We Are Young,” a single from Fun.’s album Some Nights which Bhasker wrote and produced. This past February, that song wound up winning the Grammy for Song of the Year, a feat Bhasker had barely even dreamed of. “Man, I never thought I’d reach this level,” he said. “I just started as a keyboard player… if I started making any kind of living making music, I would have been happy.” He’s making a living, for sure; Bhasker’s career has been full of both jaw-dropping variety and success. He’s either written or produced (or both) songs for Alicia Keyes (“Girl On Fire,” “Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart”), Drake (“Find Your Love”), and many other of the most iconic artists of our time, making Bhasker one of the most in-demand personalities in the music industry today.

Born and raised in New Mexico, Bhasker attended Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music. After leaving school, he was “just playing keyboard in gigs around Boston, like at weddings,” he recalls. After a stint with ’70s-era band Tavares, he decided to relocate to New York seeking more gigs, and arrived on September 11th, 2001. Following that shocking introduction, he toured around in a jam band called Lettuce with some friends hoping to get noticed. “Once I got to New York, I got more into writing songs and recording my own voice” he remembers, and one of his very first productions was for a successful indie artist named Goapele. That gig led Bhasker to his first mainstream act, the rapper The Game. “Goapele’s brother was her manager, and I sent him this super hardcore gangster beat as a joke. He wound up liking it and played it for the A&R guy for The Game, Mike Lynn.”

That beat, which later turned into the title track for The Game’s 2005 album The Documentary was Bhasker’s very first placement, and it was around this time that he met a fledgling young artist named Bruno Mars, starting a friendship that continues to be fruitful. Currently around the world, “Just Give Me a Reason” is competing with Mars’ “Locked Out Of Heaven,” a smash track from his sophomore effort Unorthodox Jukebox, which Bhasker also had a hand in writing and producing. “That song came in the middle of the process of putting together the album,” he explains of the hit’s roots. “We were just having a jam session, tracking some things, and Bruno started playing this groove and making up something on the spot; we all thought it was pretty good. We wound up working a long time on that, trying to get it just right.”

It was during these early days when Bhasker was learning many of the tricks he employs to this day. “The first time I met Bruno, Mike Lynn put us together as an experiment and we kind of honed our songwriting craft together” explained Bhasker, noting that veteran songwriter and teacher Steve Lindsey showed him and Mars the ins and outs of writing pop music. “He’d mentor us, and kind of give us lectures as to what a hit pop song is, because you can have talent and music ability, but understanding what makes a hit pop song is a whole other discipline.” One key rule Bhasker follows is to keep things positive: “The trick is to put your emotion into it while keeping it upbeat. My first hit was Alicia Keys’ “Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart,” and it’s a sad song but the chorus says “Tonight I’m gonna find a way to make it without you,” so it’s little things like that. Music and pop songs should have a positive message; there’s a power in music to heal people and give them a good feeling. From the greatest songs like “Let It Be” or “Imagine” or “Man in the Mirror,” it’s always about spinning something in a positive way. That’s been an important thing for me.”

Perhaps it’s that positivity that made his numerous collaborations with Kanye West break new ground, a partnership that first began after becoming his keyboardist on tour while still trying to write for other artists. With Kanye, Bhasker was the creative force behind many of his tracks between 2008 and 2011, including “Love Lock - American Songwriter Magazine

The lyrics could recall any small town, but to Los Angeles-based songwriter and Steamboat Springs High School graduate Tyler Johnson, the song is about home.

“No matter where I go there’s always happiness as I go down this road,” Johnson wrote in collaboration with singer and songwriter Camaron Ochs.

It’s her lilting indie-pop voice that gives life to the words, but to Johnson, the song tells his own story of growing up on a ranch in Steamboat Springs and the resonance this place will always have.

That song, “Down This Road,” was one of the songwriting duo’s first forays into country music. Although Johnson has worked for acts like Fun. and Pink, the country genre was a natural bend in the road.

“I don’t know any specifics, but it was more about how I felt like I could authentically write country music,” Johnson said. “I’ve been around it, and I grew up on a ranch.”

Now Ochs, in the midst of launching her own recording career with a debut album produced by Johnson, is traveling to Steamboat Springs for the first time this week.

But she won’t be here alone. She’ll have a team of former locals in Johnson and fellow 2004 graduate Lindsay Marias by her side, ready to introduce the smiling blonde to the Steamboat community.

Ochs plays the Ghost Ranch on Thursday, a Heritage Christian School fundraiser on Friday at the Steamboat Christian Center, and the Tugboat Grill & Pub on Sunday.

“I’m realty excited to go to Steamboat,” Ochs said. “Literally everyone I’ve met from Steamboat is amazing. It just sounds so beautiful, just the scenery and the small, tight-knit community.”

About three years go, Ochs and Johnson met in Los Angeles and began working together and selling their songs.

A year later, Johnson was visiting his hometown when he ran into Marias, a former classmate, at Slopeside Grill, and the two discovered they were both working in the music industry. Johnson began sending recording and demos of he and Ochs’ music to Marias, who works at a music venue in Chicago.

“I freaked out,” Marias said with a laugh.

Marias helped organize and promote this first tour through Colorado and is proud to show off her and Johnson’s town to the young star.

“That’s very exciting for us,” she said. “When you’re from Steamboat, after you leave you talk about it a lot. You don’t really appreciate until you leave and you brag about it to everyone you can.”

For Ochs, Johnson’s authentic roots are a shared understanding. At heart, she said, she’s a storyteller.

"I think the thing I love about country is that the melody and lyrics match the cadence of how people talk,” she said. “When you’re making up melodies it’s so much more relatable. It’s the way someone would really tell you if they had that emotional inflection of a conversation you’d be having one on one. That’s one of the most amazing things in the whole world."

Johnson and Marias will both be home for the holidays with Ochs, who also is playing the Grizzly Rose in Denver while she’s in Colorado. And while Johnson said he might get up and play a few songs with his partner, he’s perfectly happy with his role behind the scenes.

“I spent a lot of my life being a performer,” he said. “I love not doing that. (Songwriting) is way more satisfying than being the one that has to be up there.” - Steamboat Pilot & Today

The lyrics could recall any small town, but to Los Angeles-based songwriter and Steamboat Springs High School graduate Tyler Johnson, the song is about home.

“No matter where I go there’s always happiness as I go down this road,” Johnson wrote in collaboration with singer and songwriter Camaron Ochs.

It’s her lilting indie-pop voice that gives life to the words, but to Johnson, the song tells his own story of growing up on a ranch in Steamboat Springs and the resonance this place will always have.

That song, “Down This Road,” was one of the songwriting duo’s first forays into country music. Although Johnson has worked for acts like Fun. and Pink, the country genre was a natural bend in the road.

“I don’t know any specifics, but it was more about how I felt like I could authentically write country music,” Johnson said. “I’ve been around it, and I grew up on a ranch.”

Now Ochs, in the midst of launching her own recording career with a debut album produced by Johnson, is traveling to Steamboat Springs for the first time this week.

But she won’t be here alone. She’ll have a team of former locals in Johnson and fellow 2004 graduate Lindsay Marias by her side, ready to introduce the smiling blonde to the Steamboat community.

Ochs plays the Ghost Ranch on Thursday, a Heritage Christian School fundraiser on Friday at the Steamboat Christian Center, and the Tugboat Grill & Pub on Sunday.

“I’m realty excited to go to Steamboat,” Ochs said. “Literally everyone I’ve met from Steamboat is amazing. It just sounds so beautiful, just the scenery and the small, tight-knit community.”

About three years go, Ochs and Johnson met in Los Angeles and began working together and selling their songs.

A year later, Johnson was visiting his hometown when he ran into Marias, a former classmate, at Slopeside Grill, and the two discovered they were both working in the music industry. Johnson began sending recording and demos of he and Ochs’ music to Marias, who works at a music venue in Chicago.

“I freaked out,” Marias said with a laugh.

Marias helped organize and promote this first tour through Colorado and is proud to show off her and Johnson’s town to the young star.

“That’s very exciting for us,” she said. “When you’re from Steamboat, after you leave you talk about it a lot. You don’t really appreciate until you leave and you brag about it to everyone you can.”

For Ochs, Johnson’s authentic roots are a shared understanding. At heart, she said, she’s a storyteller.

"I think the thing I love about country is that the melody and lyrics match the cadence of how people talk,” she said. “When you’re making up melodies it’s so much more relatable. It’s the way someone would really tell you if they had that emotional inflection of a conversation you’d be having one on one. That’s one of the most amazing things in the whole world."

Johnson and Marias will both be home for the holidays with Ochs, who also is playing the Grizzly Rose in Denver while she’s in Colorado. And while Johnson said he might get up and play a few songs with his partner, he’s perfectly happy with his role behind the scenes.

“I spent a lot of my life being a performer,” he said. “I love not doing that. (Songwriting) is way more satisfying than being the one that has to be up there.” - Steamboat Pilot & Today

MAY 11, 2011
Singer-songwriter Camaron Ochs began making noise with Emily Bergen in grade school. Since then, their collaborative efforts have evolved from testing the waters with risqué schoolyard banter to testing the boundaries of modern folk and pop. Ochs’ band includes Bergen on backing vocals, their voices combining to produce a powerful wall of sound that reflects their powerful friendship.

The Neighborhood contributing writer Sara Alterman spoke to the songstresses about the different inspirations behind their music and how the two have managed to remain good friends despite their busy music-making schedules.

SA: What’s it like to be in a band with whom you have so much history?

BERGEN: We’ve been friends since the second grade. I wasn’t too sure about Camaron at first, but quickly realized we were meant for each other after finding out we both loved swear words. During recess we would run out to the playground fence, count to three, and yell our favorite swear word. We thought we were so cool and bad. Bonded us for life.

OCHS: I love playing music with Emily but sometimes it can be tough since we’re such good friends. We’re both really vocal and like to voice our opinions and have to make sure that we put the music first. Emily is usually more dominant in our friendship, but my opinion comes first in the band. It was definitely an adjustment at first. We lived together our first year in the band and that was hard. I feel like we have a lot more fun and appreciate each other now that we have our own space.

SA: Camaron, do you remember the first song you wrote?

OCHS: I don’t remember the name, but I know it was political, protest-y… something about sidewalks and street lamps.

SA: What songs or artists have influenced your writing and how would describe your own “flavor?”

OCHS: Two of my biggest influences are Sara Bareilles and St. Vincent. I really look up to female singer-songwriters. I was also really influenced by all the choral music I sang growing up. I’d say my flavor is vocal heavy, melodic, folk pop.

SA: Emily, what’s your background? What are your own influences that you bring to Camaron’s music?

BERGEN: I grew up singing in choirs and playing piano. Then I sang in an a cappella group in college. I love harmonizing and blending with others, so I was really eager to sing back-up for Cam. I feel like I bring a soulful vibe to her music. Sometimes she has to tell me to tone it down a bit since she’s more folky, but I think she appreciates it for the most part.

SA: What’s your favorite part about being a musician? What’s the part you could do without?

OCHS: I never get tired of being a musician. It never feels like work; I wake up eager to do it every day. It definitely feels like something I was born to do; it’s who I am. I couldn’t do without writing songs.

BERGEN: Collaborating is my favorite part. Making up arrangements on the spot, adding a new layer to a song – it feels empowering and exciting. I could never make music just on my own; I love making music with groups of people.

SA: Ever get nervous playing in front of a new crowd? How do you deal with it?

OCHS: Yes, definitely. I’m often nervous at first, but once I get into a set, it goes away. I just have to push through those first couple of songs.

SA: Camaron, what else inspires you: Particular people, places or emotions?

OCHS: Other artists who are making cool shit and pushing boundaries. Also when I’m going through rough times or am hungover or really hungry. It’s weird, but I feel like part of my brain shuts down due to the exhaustion and malnourishment and allows me to focus on one thing. I’ve written some good songs after a hard night of partying.

SA: How do you craft an emotion into a song?

OCHS: I spend a lot of time on lyrics. Then I start with matching the rhythm of the lyrics with the melody. Sometimes my heartbeat influences the tempo of the song, depending on how I was feeling when I wrote it.

SA: What’s on your iPods right now?

BERGEN: The new Tune-yards album, w h o k i l l. Fricken awesome!

OCHS: Listening to a lot of Volcano!, a work out mix I made and K’naan.

SA: Finish this sentence: Without music, I’d ___________

BERGEN: Be a really sad, incomplete person.

OCHS: Not be me.

Visit Ochs’ website for upcoming tour dates or to purchase her debut album, Heartforward.
- The Neighborhood TV

MAY 11, 2011
Singer-songwriter Camaron Ochs began making noise with Emily Bergen in grade school. Since then, their collaborative efforts have evolved from testing the waters with risqué schoolyard banter to testing the boundaries of modern folk and pop. Ochs’ band includes Bergen on backing vocals, their voices combining to produce a powerful wall of sound that reflects their powerful friendship.

The Neighborhood contributing writer Sara Alterman spoke to the songstresses about the different inspirations behind their music and how the two have managed to remain good friends despite their busy music-making schedules.

SA: What’s it like to be in a band with whom you have so much history?

BERGEN: We’ve been friends since the second grade. I wasn’t too sure about Camaron at first, but quickly realized we were meant for each other after finding out we both loved swear words. During recess we would run out to the playground fence, count to three, and yell our favorite swear word. We thought we were so cool and bad. Bonded us for life.

OCHS: I love playing music with Emily but sometimes it can be tough since we’re such good friends. We’re both really vocal and like to voice our opinions and have to make sure that we put the music first. Emily is usually more dominant in our friendship, but my opinion comes first in the band. It was definitely an adjustment at first. We lived together our first year in the band and that was hard. I feel like we have a lot more fun and appreciate each other now that we have our own space.

SA: Camaron, do you remember the first song you wrote?

OCHS: I don’t remember the name, but I know it was political, protest-y… something about sidewalks and street lamps.

SA: What songs or artists have influenced your writing and how would describe your own “flavor?”

OCHS: Two of my biggest influences are Sara Bareilles and St. Vincent. I really look up to female singer-songwriters. I was also really influenced by all the choral music I sang growing up. I’d say my flavor is vocal heavy, melodic, folk pop.

SA: Emily, what’s your background? What are your own influences that you bring to Camaron’s music?

BERGEN: I grew up singing in choirs and playing piano. Then I sang in an a cappella group in college. I love harmonizing and blending with others, so I was really eager to sing back-up for Cam. I feel like I bring a soulful vibe to her music. Sometimes she has to tell me to tone it down a bit since she’s more folky, but I think she appreciates it for the most part.

SA: What’s your favorite part about being a musician? What’s the part you could do without?

OCHS: I never get tired of being a musician. It never feels like work; I wake up eager to do it every day. It definitely feels like something I was born to do; it’s who I am. I couldn’t do without writing songs.

BERGEN: Collaborating is my favorite part. Making up arrangements on the spot, adding a new layer to a song – it feels empowering and exciting. I could never make music just on my own; I love making music with groups of people.

SA: Ever get nervous playing in front of a new crowd? How do you deal with it?

OCHS: Yes, definitely. I’m often nervous at first, but once I get into a set, it goes away. I just have to push through those first couple of songs.

SA: Camaron, what else inspires you: Particular people, places or emotions?

OCHS: Other artists who are making cool shit and pushing boundaries. Also when I’m going through rough times or am hungover or really hungry. It’s weird, but I feel like part of my brain shuts down due to the exhaustion and malnourishment and allows me to focus on one thing. I’ve written some good songs after a hard night of partying.

SA: How do you craft an emotion into a song?

OCHS: I spend a lot of time on lyrics. Then I start with matching the rhythm of the lyrics with the melody. Sometimes my heartbeat influences the tempo of the song, depending on how I was feeling when I wrote it.

SA: What’s on your iPods right now?

BERGEN: The new Tune-yards album, w h o k i l l. Fricken awesome!

OCHS: Listening to a lot of Volcano!, a work out mix I made and K’naan.

SA: Finish this sentence: Without music, I’d ___________

BERGEN: Be a really sad, incomplete person.

OCHS: Not be me.

Visit Ochs’ website for upcoming tour dates or to purchase her debut album, Heartforward.
- The Neighborhood TV

Camaron Ochs: From Lafayette to Nashville
A little bit country.

Two years ago, Camaron Ochs was working at a Stanford research lab. Today, she is living in Nashville, rubbing elbows with bigwig music execs, and writing country songs for RPM Music Group.

Ochs’ voice is beautiful and her songs effortless. Anyone would think she has been writing music all her life—but she hasn’t. Growing up in Lafayette, she sang with Contra Costa Children’s Chorus and formed an a cappella group at Campolindo High. But the tunes on her 2010 debut album, Heartforward, were the first complete songs she ever wrote (with help from collaborator Jason Shafton). “I had written fragments and tried playing guitar at college,” says Ochs. “But I was starting a craft I knew little about.”

Her CD release party sold out. No small feat for a DIY album recorded “ninja style” at the homes of family and friends. KFOG even began spinning her single, “You Were Late.”

“I didn’t have a radio, so I had to run down to my car and catch it midsong,” she says. “It was nuts. The station I’ve been listening to since I was a kid played my song and said my name. Nobody was around. I had to yell and dance by myself.”

After a stint of writing some catchy country songs in Los Angeles, Ochs caught the attention of Scott Siman (former manager of Tim McGraw and signer of the Dixie Chicks). This year, she moved to Nashville to write full-time for Siman’s RPM Music Group. She’s already signed a single-song contract for new country artist Maggie Rose. “It’s a lot easier and more freeing to write songs for other people,” says Ochs. “Your ego isn’t wrapped up in it. You can take on a different character.”

Is there another Camaron Ochs album in the works? “People keep asking me if I’m going to be a songwriter or an artist. But I can be both,” she says. “I’m going through a growth period. There are so many influences that if I released an album now, it would be all over the place. But it’s still churning in my subconscious.” —Hannah Craddick
- Diablo Magazine

http://www.sfbg.com/noise/2010/03/16/oaklands-camaron-ochs-may-inspire-folk-pop-barbie

By Amber Schadewald

Big blonde hair, rosy cheeks, and an adorable little frame ... folk-pop songstress Camaron Ochs [1] -- who'll be performing Wed/17 at Cafe Du Nord -- is a doll. Coincidentally, she is also being stalked by one— the Oakland singer-songwriter has seen quite a lot of Barbie in the past year, the long plastic limbs have been spotted at two East Bay venues where Ochs took the stage: the Stork Club [2], where the bar is decorated with stacks of cased holiday Barbies and Mama Buzz [3], the coffee shop/art gallery that hosted an art exhibit of the dolls in adult-style dioramas.

“There’s a Bat Girl Barbie at the Stork Club and I want it,” she says with a warm smile. “And I really liked the Barbie on the unicorn at Mama Buzz.”
Besides the constant grin, Ochs has nothing in common with her 11.5-inch stalker. An extensive travel record and a day job as a lab manager for emotion research means this pretty lady’s personality is far from plastic. Ochs’ brand of folk-pop is light and sweet, with genuine lyrics that ask listeners to live with their “heartforward”; a term Ochs coins as her philosophy on life and the title of her debut album.

“I came up with the term when I was living in Nepal. I was learning all about the seven chakras— the heart is the fourth,” she explains at a coffee shop in her sunny Temescal neighborhood. Skipping a few details, Ochs summarizes that being ‘heart forward’ literally means setting yourself up to take in the endless possibilities that surround us. “It’s about putting yourself out there, not just in a romantic sense, but in a life-sense.”

Bright guitar strums and a beautiful, rich voice flutter throughout Ochs’ songs, lyrics exploring relationships and offering insightful snapshots into lessons she’s learned while visiting cities around the world. Inspiration stems from other indie-folk blends, like The Weepies [4] and yet also carry a more country tone, like that of her other favorite artist, Patsy Cline. There’s an audible optimistic bliss in her music and an honest indication that the woman behind the strings is a solid, well-rounded being.

Born a California girl, Ochs grew up with an interest in music, taking notes from her grandparent’s love of classic country and learning to sing in multiple languages. In college Ochs started her own A Cappella group, but it wasn’t until her study abroad experience in the Netherlands that she picked up a guitar.

“I decided to do the college thing— get a guitar. But I wasn’t any good at it. I would play on the streets of Amsterdam and then I even tried to sell it on the street, but no one wanted it.”

Eventually she gave it to a boyfriend and headed back home. A few months later, Ochs realized she missed her box of strings.

“So I borrowed a backpacker, basically just the neck of a guitar without the body, and brought it with me into the mountains of Nepal.” The trip included a flight over Kathmandu, a six-hour bus ride, five hours in a taxi and a ten-hour walk straight up into the mountain to where she would take residency for the next six weeks.

A girl on her own in a foreign land, Ochs had no choice but to keep an open mind and her ‘heartforward.’

“The first two weeks, I cried and cried. All I could focus on was how much different everything was there,” she says recalling the trip. “And then I realized that when you strip away everything you’ve ever had in your entire life, that’s when you see what you really are and who you really want to be.”

She met a couple of traveling Canadians and together they would play music, battling the inconsistent electricity with late night guitar parties. Building on that experience and developing her own relationship with the instrument once she returned home, Ochs is now playing confidently and taking on stages across the Bay with a full band. She couldn’t have been happier when her CD release party sold out.

“I think I’m really lucky. But I’m working really hard, so I guess it’s really not luck afterall.” - San Francisco Bay Guardian

Camaron Ochs is an undiscovered local gem. With pretty vocals, charming lyrics, and lots of acoustic strumming, Heartforward is classic singer/songwriter stuff. But the sensibility is distinctly female, which is nice in a male-dominated field. It's not often that you hear a woman admit that she'd choose her guitar over her boyfriend. Charming and refreshingly honest. - East Bay Express

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I caught the last couple songs of Camaron Ochs. She, strapped up with guitar and flanked on either side by two female singers, eased me into the evening. It was a bit of a surprise as I came getting ready for something a little rockier, but Camaron brought a nice velvet touch to open the show.

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Full text at http://www.thebaybridged.com/2009/11/10/7-orange-abc-belly-of-the-whale-camaron-ochs-the-starry-plough/ - The Bay Bridged

DISCOVERING A NEW ARTIST: Tired of searching for new music? I have an answer: Camaron Ochs. My friends and I cannot get enough of her debut album, "Heartforward," released in January. Her tunes are catchy, her guitar rhythms perfect for humming on my drive to school. In a world where artists like KeSha and Lady Gaga can be found everywhere, I find solace in Ochs' light and classy style.

And, there's a twist. Ochs is a Bay Area native and Campolindo High School alumnae. She performs locally and a portion of her album profits goes to help causes such as the Contra Costa Children's Chorus' music education and Fonkoze Haiti relief. In fact, she recently performed in Moraga at a St. Baldrick's event to raise money for pediatric cancer.
I can't stop hitting repeat.

— Sarah Mohamed, Campolindo High School (Moraga)

http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-living/ci_14970335 - San Jose Mercury News

DISCOVERING A NEW ARTIST: Tired of searching for new music? I have an answer: Camaron Ochs. My friends and I cannot get enough of her debut album, "Heartforward," released in January. Her tunes are catchy, her guitar rhythms perfect for humming on my drive to school. In a world where artists like KeSha and Lady Gaga can be found everywhere, I find solace in Ochs' light and classy style.

And, there's a twist. Ochs is a Bay Area native and Campolindo High School alumnae. She performs locally and a portion of her album profits goes to help causes such as the Contra Costa Children's Chorus' music education and Fonkoze Haiti relief. In fact, she recently performed in Moraga at a St. Baldrick's event to raise money for pediatric cancer.
I can't stop hitting repeat.

— Sarah Mohamed, Campolindo High School (Moraga)

http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-living/ci_14970335 - San Jose Mercury News

Paradigm Electronics Inc. hosted artist Camaron Ochs at the recent International CES show in Las Vegas. Camaron played an hour-long set off her debut album, "Heartforward" which was released January 26. The event attracted close to 200 CES attendees and garnered praise from both press and Paradigm dealers who received the exclusive invite.

For more information on Camaron Ochs and her new album, "Heartforward," visit her Web site at www.camaronochs.com. For more information on Paradigm, visit www.paradigm.com - Custom Retailer

Paradigm Electronics Inc. hosted artist Camaron Ochs at the recent International CES show in Las Vegas. Camaron played an hour-long set off her debut album, "Heartforward" which was released January 26. The event attracted close to 200 CES attendees and garnered praise from both press and Paradigm dealers who received the exclusive invite.

For more information on Camaron Ochs and her new album, "Heartforward," visit her Web site at www.camaronochs.com. For more information on Paradigm, visit www.paradigm.com - Custom Retailer