Music Career
Cameron Cartio started his music career in Sweden. He speaks and sings in different languages, including Persian, English, and Spanish; the latter was learned in Spain where he lived for some time. Coming from an artistic family certainly helped as well in his musical career. His brother Alec Cartio, is a music producer and music video director.
Cameron Cartio made his debut in Melodifestivalen 2005 with his song "Roma". He reached to "Second Chance" stage after qualifying in the Linköping semi-final on 19 February 2005. Singing in the "second chance" qualifying round on 6 March 2005, he failed to reach the finals. But the song proved popular with the Swedish audiences and the single made it to the Top 5 of the Swedish music charts peaking at #4 (April 2005). The lyrics of "Roma" were written in a conlang, a made-up language by Cameron Cartio, "borderless language of love" as he calls it. He also made a Spanish language version of the same song.
He followed "Roma" with his first studio album Borderless that includes notably, besides "Roma" a duo featuring rai singer Khaled. The song entitled "Henna" is in Arabic and again in Cartio's conlang. Cameron and Khaled also released an Arabic/Spanish version on a maxi CD for Spain in 2006. His song "Henna" (partly in Arabic) and his collaboration with Cheb Khaled made him popular throughout the Arab World. He also found success with the catchy hit "Ni Na Nay". The bilingual English/Spanish "Don't Tell Me Tonight" a song with Edurne made it to the Top 40 on the Greek radio charts.
He is now signed with Universal Music Group, Sherfa Music and Taraneh Records. In 2011, he has released a dance hit "Electric", a Persian language cover of Melody Club song. and Bia Nazdiktar. His 2012 cuando volveras (the spanish version of bia nazdiktar) found success in south american countries .He also released 2 more singles in 2012 including "Sheytoonaki" (features Maria Manson) that is in english,though the title is farsi and "Ye Divoone" which has 3 remixes that Cartio released 2 of them in 2012.Possibly he is going to release his second studio album in 2013 but the release date hasn't been confirmed yet
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