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Cameron also talked at length about<br />
sustainable practices and lifestyles, citing<br />
electric vehicles as a step in the right<br />
direction. In his song, he talks about "rolling<br />
down the strip with a Tesla grip", in<br />
reference to the auto manufacturer. His<br />
first song – “Back in the Day”, which was<br />
written in 2011, discusses the environment<br />
at length. In that song, he advised that<br />
people should "live like back in the day<br />
when Dinosaurs roamed the earth". In that<br />
song, he continues on rapping: “Don’t live<br />
black, live green.”<br />
At the 2013 event, Cameron Nino and<br />
his band did covers of The Beatles,<br />
Bob Marley, Black Sabbath and Bon<br />
Jovi, an eclectic mix that had the<br />
audience riveted as he went from<br />
playing his acoustic guitar to<br />
shredding Tony Iommi's solo on Iron<br />
Man while singing Ozzie's lines.<br />
So, we wanted to know how he got started<br />
with music. Cameron revealed to us that in<br />
2012, while volunteering at the pastries and<br />
sweets booth at the Blessed Sacrament<br />
Carnival and Food Festival, he was asked if<br />
he wanted to go on stage and play the Star<br />
Spangled Banner on his acoustic guitar. He<br />
had just learned the song about a week<br />
before the event. He agreed to do so. He<br />
enjoyed the experience a lot. In 2013, the<br />
Carnival organizers invited him back. This<br />
time, a group of musicians was assembled<br />
to perform with him at the event. The group<br />
met for the first time on October 15, 2013 to<br />
begin rehearsing for the event. The event<br />
was a huge success, with the then unnamed<br />
group getting a prolonged ovation from the<br />
attendees. Ever since then, the organizers of<br />
the event have continued to invite Cameron<br />
Nino and his band Seventh Nova to perform<br />
every year.<br />
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In early 2014, Cameron Nino caught the<br />
attention of John Branca, one of the<br />
founders of Club 42<br />
(www.club42online.com), a sports nonprofit<br />
that provides opportunities for<br />
inner city youth to compete in Baseball at<br />
the same level as their peers in more<br />
affluent neighborhoods. Shortly after he<br />
caught Mr. Branca's attention, in April of<br />
2014, Johnny 'Buc' Lockwood, one of the<br />
co-founders of Club 42 invited Cameron<br />
to lead their effort in creating a mashup<br />
of select Michael Jackson and The Beatles<br />
songs. The resultant work was titled "All<br />
My People - A Tribute to Michael Jackson<br />
and The Beatles." This body of work is<br />
available on Soundcloud. Cameron's<br />
participation with Club 42 as a guest at<br />
their basketball tournaments afforded<br />
him the opportunity to meet and mingle<br />
with kids from inner city communities,<br />
an opportunity that he would never have<br />
had having spent his entire life in Laurel<br />
Canyon.<br />
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