Camyluv Hervey has long seen herself as a singer-songwriter. But at Friday’s Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth Summit, she was able to show off how her R&B songs brought her joy and helped her heal from the difficult years after her mother’s death and the subsequent custody battles that left her without a home. “My mom always used to ask me, what did I want to be? I’d always answer a singer and a dancer,” Hervey, 19, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal after her performance.
“Ever since then I’d start yelling and singing. I’ve always been a singer. It’s helped me, it helps me remember her because she also loved music.
” The eighth-annual conference was held at Las Vegas City Hall and was hosted by the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth and Las Vegas Sands. While most of the summit highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of support available to homeless youth in the Silver State, a key part of the day’s events were Hervey’s songs and a fashion show of outfits created by other NPHY youth. Hervey said she recorded the songs in NPHY’s studio after encouragement from a staffer.
She said she appreciated the life skills classes and artistic expression opportunities she’s gotten through NPHY. “Even though I lost a lot of hope, they have really helped me,” she said. “I did not know what was going to happen to me – it’s scary when you’re young and finding out what you want to do in life.
Here comes NPHY helping you with those steps.” The s.