Selema "Sal" Mabena Masekela was born on August 28,1971 and is an American television host, sports commentator, actor and singer.
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14 Facts About Sal Masekela
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Sal Masekela is the older half-brother of Survivor: Cook Islands contestant Nathan Gonzalez.
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Sal Masekela was raised in Staten Island, New York in the same class with rapper Method Man and Carlsbad, California, where he attended Carlsbad High School.
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Sal Masekela is the co-founder of Berkela Motion Pictures with Jason Bergh.
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When he was a teenager, Sal Masekela's upbringing brought him to Southern California, where he was first exposed to surfing, snowboarding and skateboarding.
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Sal Masekela's career began as an intern at Transworld Publications in 1992, home of TW Snow, TW Skateboarding, and TW Surf magazines.
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Sal Masekela was host of both the X Games and Winter X Games on ESPN for 13 years but left in 2012 to work for NBC and NBC Sports Network through a contract with Red Bull Media House.
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Sal Masekela appears in the "Green" episode of Yo Gabba Gabba singing the song "Hello World" which aired on Nick Jr.
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Sal Masekela has hosted live events, including YouTube's Brandcast in New York and Paris, YouTube Live on Stage from the Kennedy Center and Google's Zeitgeist.
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Sal Masekela joined the Emmy-award-winning investigative series VICE on HBO as a correspondent and executive producer in 2015.
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From April 2016, Sal Masekela appeared as the host and executive producer of VICELAND's docu-series, VICE World of Sports.
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Sal Masekela is involved in several social initiatives, and is the co-founder of Stoked Mentoring, an organization dedicated to mentoring at risk youth through action sports.
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Sal Masekela serves on the advisory boards of The Lunchbox Fund, a non-profit organization which provides a daily meal to students of township schools in Soweto of South Africa, and The Skatepark Project, an organization dedicated to financing and building high-quality, legal skateboarding parks for kids.
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Sal Masekela is a strong public supporter of the Surfrider Foundation and Life Rolls On.
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