The HistoryMakers video oral history with Camara Kambon.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (3 video files (1 hr., 26 min., 40 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11318345
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Camara Kambon
Camara Kambon
Other authors / contributors:Kambon, Camara, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Hollywood, California 2008 September 17.
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Summary:Composer and music producer Camara Kambon was born on February 4, 1973 in Baltimore, Maryland. A music lover from an early age, Kambon composed his first musical riffs by the age of six. Kambon studied jazz, classical piano, and composition at Peabody Preparatory School in Baltimore. Kambon graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1994. In 1996, Kambon became the youngest composer to receive an Emmy Award for the film, Sonny Liston: The Mysterious Life and Death of a Champion. As head of Inflx Entertainment, he continued composing and producing music for television and film. Kambon worked as a keyboard player for Dr. Dre and composed Korikabaya, which was performed by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Kambon received three Grammy nominations in 2001 for co-writing the Mary J. Blige hit, Family Affair, for his keyboard work on Nelly Furtado's Whoa, Nelly! and for his contribution to Eve's album, Scorpion.