Cameron Walker-Wright
Background information
Birth nameCameron Alexander Francis Walker-Wright
Born (1989-04-24) April 24, 1989
Southport, Connecticut
Occupation(s)
  • Singer-songwriter
  • Musician
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • Guitar
  • Bass
Years active2009–present
Member ofTwin XL
Formerly ofNekokat, Animal Fiction, Weatherstar
Websitehttps://www.cameronwalkerwright.com/

Cameron Alexander Francis Walker-Wright[1] (born April 24, 1989) professionally known as Cameron Walker, is a singer, songwriter, producer, and artist from Southport, Connecticut. He is currently in the supergroup band Twin XL along with John Gomez and Stephen Gomez.[2]

He is currently based in Los Angeles, CA and has written songs for bands and artists such as Lindsey Stirling, All Time Low, Sabrina Carpenter, The Ready Set, among many others.[3] He is also known from the band Weatherstar.

Cameron has composed music for brands such as Apple, T-Mobile, Victoria's Secret, Sleepy's and other brands. In addition, he has composed music for networks such as NBC, ABC, ESPN, among many others.[4]

Career

In 2009, Walker formed the band Weatherstar.[5] The band released their self-titled debut EP in 2010 and includes the songs, "Wish You Would Stay" and "Postcards".[6] The group toured with The Bigger Lights, The Graduate and You Me and Everyone We Know, as well as performing at the Vans Warped Tour in 2010.[7] In April 2011, an EP entitled, Crystal Ball was released.[8] In November 2011, a christmas EP titled, Christmas Makes the Heart Grow Fonder was released along with the lead single, "It's Not Christmas Without You Here".[9]

In 2012, his band Nineteen 80 Five (1985) was signed to Songs Music Publishing.[10] Since then the band has gone on to release a collection of EPs and released the single, Summer Forever, on Hollywood Records.[11] In September 2012, Walker debuted a new project with his brother Julian Walker called Brothers. They released their debut single, "12 Degrees" that same month.[12] The duo later released "It's Not Christmas Without You Here" and cover of "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)" for streaming via Alternative Press in December 2012.[13] In January 2013, Nineteen 80 Five released "Everything's Perfect" as the lead single from their second EP, which was released in February.[14] In 2014, Cameron signed to songwriter and producer, David Hodges, as his first signing to his publishing company Third & Verse which was a joint venture with Kobalt Music Group.[15]

Walker-Wright has played guitar, bass guitar and wrote several songs for The Ready Set.[16] Walker wrote "Disappearing Act", "Concrete", "Run with Me" and "Swim" on The Ready Set's fifth studio album, I Will Be Nothing Without Your Love.[17]

Cameron Walker from Twin XL

He is one third of the indie pop group Nekokat along with Jordan Witzigreuter (The Ready Set) and Jess Bowen (drummer of The Summer Set).[18] In September 2016, he released a single titled, "Just Come Home".[19] In May 2017, he released another single titled, "I'm Sorry", under the name, Alexander Francis.[20]

In 2018, he joined brothers Stephen and John Gomez of The Summer Set to form the band Twin XL.[21] As of 2023, they released one studio album titled Hyperfantasia, two EPs and 13 singles. The band makes all of their own music, start-to-finish, and have admitted that it is "sometimes difficult" to balance recording with performances.[22] Previously, the band toured with Jukebox The Ghost and The Mowgli's for the Making Friends Tour of 2019,[23] and toured with I Don't Know How But They Found Me the same year.[24] They ended 2019 touring with The Maine for The Mirror tour,[25] and toured with Fitz and the Tantrums in 2020.[26] The band released their debut studio album, Hyperfantasia on May 19, 2023.[27]

In early 2021, Cameron started a music label with fellow artist Jordan Witzigreuter, Swim Team Records.[28] The company has featured a multitude of artists such as Future Coyote, TALKBAK, and Casey Abrams. The label's music has been featured in promotion for things such as the PGA Tour.[29] Walker wrote "Rock with You" by Seventeen for their ninth EP, Attacca.[30]

Discography

Musical History
Year Projects Albums/ EPs Singles
2009 Weatherstar Weatherstar

Acoustic

Crystal Ball

Go

Closer

Christmas Makes The Heart Grow Fonder (A Weatherstar Holiday Collection)

Out In The Rain

Covers EP

 Snow

For The First Time (Cover)

Believe

All Talk

2012 Brothers 12 Degrees
2012 1985 Congratulations

Everything's Perfect

 Summer Forever

Days Like This

2012 The Ready Set (touring member)

I Will Be Nothing Without Your Love (Songwriter)

 Disappearing Act (Songwriter)
2014 Animal Fiction Animal Fiction EP

Yellow! Pink! Green!

Happy Thoughts

We'll Go Places

Anything Can Happen

I Really Like It Cold

Oh No!

Symmetry

Real Again

Start Again (2020, Writer)

 Enjoy The Ride

Lone Wolf

2015 Bye Bye Take Me Home
2016 Cameron Walker Just Come Home
2017 Nekokat Communication

Communication II

Pleasure Beach

 Boys Don't Cry

Haunted

Haunted (Acoustic)

Bella, Goodbye

Take

Warchild

Up In Smoke

Melt

2018 Alexander Francis I'm Sorry
2018 Twin XL How To Talk To Strangers Messy

Messy (Extended Version)

Melt

Problematic

Lemonade

Lonely (with Little Hurt & Rad Horror)

Slow Heart

Want You (Unreleased)

Upgrade

Writing[31]
Year Band/ Artist Album Song
2012 We The Kings Somewhere Somehow Say It Now
2013 Age Of Days radioactivity Ready To Go
2014 The Kettles You're Not You Soundtrack Finally Free
2014 Heffron Drive Happy Mistakes Had to be Panama
2014 Sabrina Carpenter Eyes Wide Open We'll be the Stars
2015 Wish I Was Wish I Was Cutting Ties
2015 All Time Low Future Hearts Cinderblock Garden
2015 David Hodges The December Sessions, Vol. 3 Under The Influence
The Other Road
The Only Story
2016 David Hodges The December Sessions, Vol. 4 Lovers In Orbit
2016 Sophia Kameron Connected Connected
2016 Borgeous 13 Over the Edge
2016 Tor Miller All Fall Down
2016 The Summer Set Stories For Monday All In
2016 Tonight Alive Limitless How Does It Feel
2016 Arrows to Athens Exile City Of Angels
2016 The Ready Set I Will Be Nothing Without Your Love Disappearing Act
Swim
Concrete
Run With Me
2017 Outasight Ritchie Feel Good
2018 Lindsey Stirling Warmer In The Winter Time To Fall In Love
2018 The Ready Set V1 Life In Pink
Real
Let U Go
2018 The Ready Set V2 Stitch
2018 Animal Island Animalistic Imagine All You Can Do
2018 The Mowglis I was Starting to Wonder I Feel Good About This
2018 Cade Foehner Breathe Out
2018 Vanessa Mai Schlager Vergessen dich zu vergessen
2018 Set it Off Midnight Lonely Dance
2019 Saint PHYNX Sorry
2019 Onlychild solstice, part 2. Royal Blue
2019 Derek Hough Say It Now
2019 Dreamers Launch Fly Land Dizzy
2019 Mannequin Online So Cool
2019 Little Hurt It's Okay Not To Be Okay
2020 Set it Off After Midnight So Predictable
2020 Animal Fiction Like I Do
2020 Animal Fiction Start Again
2020 Em Rossi The Other Side
2020 The Veil Batwoman Soundtrack Welcome To My World
2020 Paper Jackets Drugs & Honey
2020 Onlychild Thank Me Later
2020 Little Hurt Every Second My Head Hurts
2021 Future Coyote Get To Work
2021 Little Luna therapy
2021 Little Hurt Every Second I Don't Wanna Be Here
2021 Future Coyote Coming Alive
2021 Trans Violet Blue Flowers
2021 Casey Abrams To Me, From Me
2021 TALKBAK TALKBAK Gimme Something Good

Jump

Fire

Yng4Evr

2021 Young Rising Sons Carousel
2021 Dreamers Brainless
2021 Riivels Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
2021 Animal Fiction Eyes To The Sun Ready 2 Go

Find Our Way

Everywhere We Go

Eyes To The Sun

Take Me Higher

Permanent Vacation

2021 Seventeen Attacca Rock With You
2021 Set It Off Skeleton
2021 Alex Di Leo Following Feelings
Features[32]
Year Artist Songs
2014 tyDi Apollo
2015 Wish I Was Cutting Ties

Now I Know

End Of Faith

2016 Wish I Was We're Better Than This

Stop This

The Bubble

Kill Me

We Can't Go On Like This

I Want To Believe

2016 tyDi Sharpest Weapon

All I Ever Knew

2017 Wish I Was This Could Be It?
2018 Animal Island New Classic

All You Can Do

2018 tyDi Everything I See
2020 Animal Island Undefined

Live Loud

2020 American Teeth Barred Out [Feat. Twin XL]
2021 LUNA AURA Smile

References

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  2. ↑ "Twin XL - Position Music". Retrieved December 23, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Discography". cameron walker. Archived from the original on 2014-07-28. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  4. ↑ "Film/TV/Brands". cameron walker. Retrieved 2020-01-01.
  5. ↑ "The Ready Set's Cameron Walker Unleashes New Band". Buzznet. October 30, 2012. Retrieved October 30, 2023.
  6. ↑ Leslie Simon (June 9, 2010). "The Buzz On: Weatherstar". MTV. Retrieved October 30, 2023.
  7. ↑ "Unsigned Find: Weatherstar". Seventeen. December 1, 2010. Retrieved October 30, 2023.
  8. ↑ "Crystal Ball - EP by Weatherstar". Spotify. Retrieved October 30, 2023.
  9. ↑ "Weatherstar To Release 'Crystal Ball' Remix, Christmas EP". Top40-Charts. November 14, 2011. Retrieved October 30, 2023.
  10. ↑ "1985 Signed To SONGS Music Publishing". Archived from the original on 2016-10-15. Retrieved 2017-02-13.
  11. ↑ Kristen Hudak (August 14, 2012). "Band 1985's Summer Forever is Little League World Series' theme". EPSN. Retrieved October 31, 2023.
  12. ↑ Brian Kraus (September 29, 2012). "Song Premiere: Brothers, 12 Degrees". Alternative Press. Archived from the original on January 4, 2015. Retrieved October 31, 2023.
  13. ↑ Brian Kraus (December 22, 2012). "Downloads: Brothers, It's Not Christmas Without You Here & Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)". Alternative Press. Archived from the original on April 4, 2013. Retrieved October 31, 2023.
  14. ↑ Cassie Whitt (January 6, 2013). "Song Premiere: 1985, Everythings Perfect". Alternative Press. Archived from the original on April 3, 2013. Retrieved October 31, 2023.
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  16. ↑ "Cameron Walker-Wright - The Ready Set". Retrieved January 14, 2021.
  17. ↑ "I Will Be Nothing Without Your Love - The Ready Set Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved November 3, 2023.
  18. ↑ "New Supergroup NEKOKAT's 'Gimme A Break': Exclusive Single Premiere". Billboard. Retrieved 2019-12-31.
  19. ↑ Emillie Marvel (September 22, 2016). "Premiere: Cameron Walker's Just Come Home". idobi Radio. Retrieved October 30, 2023.
  20. ↑ Emillie Marvel (May 10, 2017). "idobi Sessions: Alexander Francis – I'm Sorry". idobi Radio. Retrieved October 30, 2023.
  21. ↑ "TWIN XL". www.positionmusic.com. Retrieved 2020-01-01.
  22. ↑ Grillo, Anna Mollie (May 24, 2021). "We're a Mess Over Twin XL's New Single "Messy"". The Honey POP. Retrieved January 8, 2022.
  23. ↑ Jennifer Dill (February 8, 2019). "TWIN XL release third single Friends and Announce EP". Retrieved January 1, 2023.
  24. ↑ Goeman, Collin (2019-05-22). "iDKHOW extend "Night Heat" tour with summer dates". Alternative Press. Retrieved 2020-01-01.
  25. ↑ "Twin XL to Join The Maine on Nationwide Tour This Fall". August 14, 2019. Retrieved July 13, 2021.
  26. ↑ Jennifer Dill (September 20, 2019). "Twin XL Announced As Support for Fitz and the Tantrums All The Feels Tour". Retrieved July 13, 2021.
  27. ↑ @wearetwinxl (April 11, 2023). "We're back. Our debut album Hyperfantasia comes out 5/19. You cool with that?" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  28. ↑ "Instagram". www.instagram.com. Archived from the original on 2012-09-13. Retrieved 2021-10-13.
  29. ↑ "Instagram". www.instagram.com. Archived from the original on 2012-09-13. Retrieved 2021-10-13.
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