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- Artist Andrew Vasquez Andrew Vasquez is a member of the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma (Kiowa Apache). He began his career as a traditional… View →
- Artist Tommy Wildcat Tommy Wildcat (b. 1967) is a full-blood Cherokee from Park Hill, Oklahoma, who has worked to promote Cherokee cultural awareness… View →
- Artist Xavier Quijas Yxayotl Xavier Quijas Yxayotl was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, and is of Huichol (Wixarika) heritage. In the 1970s he left… View →
- Artist Jan Michael Looking Wolf Jan Michael Looking Wolf Reibach (b. 1966, Portland, Oregon) is a Kalapuya tribal member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand… View →
- Artist Arvel Bird Arvel Bird, born in Utah and raised in Arizona, is of mixed Southern Paiute and Scottish (Clan Kennedy) heritage that… View →
- Artist Vince Redhouse Vince Redhouse is a Dine (Navajo) musician, one of six musical siblings in the Redhouse family. Known for playing the… View →
- Artist Charles Littleleaf Charles Littleleaf is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon through his mother,… View →
- Artist Joseph FireCrow Joseph FireCrow (1959-2017) was born on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana and studied flute formally at Brigham Young University… View →
- Artist Tony Duncan Tony Duncan is of San Carlos Apache descent through his father and Mandan-Hidatsa-Arikara descent through his mother. He first played… View →
- Artist Bill Miller Bill Miller (b. 1955) was born on the Stockbridge-Munsee reservation near Shawano, Wisconsin. A three-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, painter, and Native… View →
- Artist Kevin Locke Kevin Locke (1954-2022), known by his Lakota name Tokeya Inajin, was Hunkpapa Lakota of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and… View →
- Artist Robert Mirabal Robert Mirabal (b. 1966), a member of Taos Pueblo in New Mexico, began making traditional flutes at 19 and has… View →
- Artist Mary Youngblood Mary Youngblood (b. 1958, Seattle) is of Aleut and Seminole heritage. She is the first woman to record an album… View →
- Artist Hiroshi Yoshimura Hiroshi Yoshimura (1940-2003), born in Yokohama, began piano at five and graduated from Waseda in 1964 under the influence of… View →
- Artist Kazuya Nagaya Kazuya Nagaya began as a writer in his twenties before turning to music, composing for broadcast commercials and winning a… View →
- Artist Meitei Meitei (real name Daisuke Fujita) is a Hiroshima-born, Kyoto-based composer working in ambient and experimental music. After eight years as… View →
- Artist Fumio Miyashita Born in Nagano in 1949, Fumio Miyashita played rhythm guitar in a rock and roll group as a teenager before… View →
- Artist H. Takahashi H. Takahashi is a Tokyo-born ambient musician and architect who founded the Kankyo Records shop and label. He began composing… View →
- Artist Ryuichi Sakamoto Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952-2023) began composing at four and studied composition, electronic music, and ethnomusicology at the Tokyo National University of… View →
- Artist Yoshio Ojima Born in 1959, Yoshio Ojima is a Tokyo-based composer and sound designer who has pursued his own style of ambient… View →
- Artist Satoshi Ashikawa Satoshi Ashikawa (1953-1983) was one of the earliest flag bearers of ambient music in Japan, graduating from Keio Universitys Department… View →
- Artist Takashi Kokubo Born in 1956, Takashi Kokubo was at the forefront of kankyo ongaku (environmental music), beginning with Digital Soundology #1 -… View →
- Artist Midori Takada Born in Tokyo in 1951, Midori Takada graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts and began her career as… View →
- Artist Nalini Blossom Nalini Blossom is a singer-songwriter, sound healer, ceremonialist, and workshop facilitator who has spent two decades visiting sacred sites worldwide… View →
