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The music video for the song ‘A Million Years’ by Nissim.

Nissim Baruch Black was born in Seattle, Washington in 1986 to a family of non-practicing Sunni Muslims.  He would convert to Christianity at the age of 14 after attending summer camp and began rapping at around the same time.  Eventually, he would grow uncomfortable with mainstream Christianity and began practicing Messianic Christianity.  He released his album Ali’yah with his Messianic Christian beliefs, but would renounce those beliefs completely six months after the release of the album with the help of the counter-Messianic Christianity organization Jews for Judaism.