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While growing up in the predominantly Italian neighborhood of Carroll Garden's in Brooklyn, NY on the corner of Court Street and Carroll Street, Dave was no stranger to the Italian lifestyle that surrounded him. Right next door to Dave's brownstone apartment was Casa Rosa, a restaurant that was owned by members of the Genovese Crime Family. Dave at the age of six became one of the few outsiders that Vincent "the Chin" Gigante looked out for, and was assured that if anyone made any moves they would be gone forever. But a year prior to his formal introduction to Vincent and his crew, Dave began his desire to create hip-hop music through the b-boy culture. He would throw down a perforated cardboard box to break in Carroll Park right across the street from where he lived. Hip-hop was always embedded in the core of imagination that Dave took away from Brooklyn when he moved away at the age of 8. Like they say in Brooklyn, "You can take the boy out of Brooklyn. But you can never take the Brooklyn out of the boy." Along his magnificent quest for enlightenment through his own creativity, Dave became surrounded by many athletes, actors, musical artists, directors, and film producers later in life who taught Dave how to produce, direct, act, write, and record through witnessing them at their craft. At the age of 10, Dave was invited to sit on the bench during a Bulls game with legendary basketball player Michael Jordan. After meeting Michael Jordan, Dave Dave was trained by athletic coaches at Jordan's camp, which assisted Dave to become a member of his high school basketball team. At eleven-years-old, Dave Dave was invited to the Vision Pro Skate escape by legendary skater Tony Hawk. There was a gap in Dave's life where he wanted to stay outside of the limelight and the glamour of Hollywood. However, in 1993, he worked for legendary director and producer Tony Bill on a film starring Randy Quaid, James Woods, Lucinda Jenny and Kate Capshaw. Dave's enthusiastic venture towards film led him to apply to prestigious art school Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Several years later Dave began his work for musical superstar Michael Jackson as an archiver of books, photos, and media. While he was acquiring experience within the musical field, Dave began DJ'ing tech house at the historical Hollywood club, The Martini Lounge, once located on the corner of Melrose and Larchmont in Hollywood, CA. In 1995, Dave was introduced to his long time friend, Fletcher Dragge, guitarist of the legendary surf-punk band Pennywise when Dave attended the Warped Tour in Long Beach. Fletcher and Dave are still great friends and visit anytime the band Pennywise comes to Vegas. In 1996, Dave Dave co-starred on the popular soap opera, The Bold and the Beautiful after receiving a call from a casting director, whom Dave denied. Then Dave received a personal call from Executive Producer William Bell. He agreed to a two show deal, where Dave starred as a character lending support for Hunter Tylo's Character, who had received some burns and was in the hospital recovering from some kind of burn injury. Following his short stint on The Bold and the Beautiful, Dave began a promotional campaign In 1997, Dave was accepted into one of the most prestigious film schools in the country at Art Center College of Design where he studied under acclaimed director of Laverne & Shirley, Francine Parker. Shortly after finishing his stint at Art Center College of Design, Dave began dabbling in musical and artistic ventures. During this period of the life of Dave Dave, he was a recipient of the prestigious LA Music Awards and an artist who sold out an entire show in one night at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, Ca. His prolific venture into becoming a musician of great skills led him to receive a Los Angeles Music Award for special achievement in music. At Art Center College of Design, Dave attended with members of the band Linkin Park Linkin Park. Mike Shinoda and Chester Bennington were studying design and illustration along with DJ Hahn who were then were performing as a band called Xero. And while at Art Center, Dave became friend with the artist known as Shark Toof and Joseph Watson. During the past four years, Dave studied marketing at the Woodbury School of Business at Utah Valley University, where he achieved an associates degree in Business Management. But after he decided to transfer to UNLV, the Lee School of Business would not accept any of Dave's upper division marketing or math courses and were requiring Dave to take 3 years of mathematics, of which Dave had chosen not to retake. Dave began to wonder what his overall purpose could be in this world. Journalism sounded like a good field, as Dave has been interviews by thousands and thousands of reporters in his lifetime. However, Dave hit a roadblock during his first full semester at UNLV and the journalism department became a source of great struggle for Dave. Under the circumstances of the roadblock, Dave was forced to drop from the Hank Greenspun School of Journalism at UNLV. Recently, Dave has decided to major in painting, drawing, and printmaking in UNLV's fine art department. Currently Dave is making hip-hop music and creating art. Dave is currently involved in the Nomix Show at Blackbird Studios