Touring with Courtney Pine's award-winning band Cameron Pierre's guitar style has dazzled many a jazz fan, garnering glowing reviews from all over the world for his warm, dexterous sound and his self-deprecating and engaging stage presence" Born in London but raised on the Caribbean island of Dominica Cameron's early musical influences were Bob Marley, Burning Spear, Jimmy Cliff, and a host of artists from that era of popular Jamaican music, oh, and Stevie Wonder. At sixteen Cameron taught himself to play the guitar, and it was within the reggae genre that he first established himself, working with Jamaican artists including Clint Eastwood & General Saint, Barrington, Levy, Al Campbell, Wayne Marshall, Dennis Brown, Tipa Ire, Micheal Prophet et al. Then came the slow discovery of George Benson and Charlie Christian, and through them, Wes Montgomery, Miles Davis and Charlie Parker. Since then Cameron has gone on to work with a who's who of musicians including Courtney Pine, Pee Wee Ellis, Orphy Robinson, Alex Wilson, Jazz Jamaica, Omar Puente, Junior Walker, Joe Cocker.
