King Youngblood

He might be young, but songwriter, performer, producer, activist Cameron Lavi-Jones is no rookie–with hundreds of shows played, this twenty-one-year-old ‘kid’ is a grown-ass musician. After ten years of live performance, Lavi-Jones is effortless on stage, delivering infectiously energetic shows from house parties to festivals. Is he talented? Lavi-Jones will tell you “It’s 80% the hair,” but four-time Grammy-winning rock producer Adam Kasper (Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam, Queens of the Stone Age, Aerosmith) seems to think Lavi-Jones has what it takes–Kasper is producing King Youngblood’s (formerly known as Gypsy Temple) dozens of new songs in the wake of the band’s 2019 successful release King Youngblood. With drums for several of the new songs coming from Soundgarden and Pearl Jam’s Matt Cameron, and production in the hands of Kasper, King Youngblood’s upcoming body of work, aptly titled God I Am Exhausted, is one of the most anticipated records in the regional and national alt-rock music scene according to Alternative Press and American Songwriter. A strong belief in doing what is right lies at the core of what drives Lavi-Jones and his band and that belief seeps into his creative expressions as a musician, as an activist, and as a human. Lavi-Jones: “As a black Jew, I’ve been incredibly lucky to grow up with a sense of pride in who I am and my dual cultures, without ever having to look at them as opposite sides of a coin. People that look like me have spent too much time being shoved in the shadows. I have a unique privilege and opportunity to look forward to what I think is where we should have been already. I have something to say and I am grateful for my songs and band give me the forum to speak my mind and lift up others both full band and unplugged.”   Lavi-Jones is a powerful songwriter and performs exclusively on his Breedlove guitar.