- List of Native American musicians
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This is a list of Native American musicians and singers
Indigenous music of North America:
TopicsNative American/First Nations Chicken scratch Ghost Dance Hip hop Native American flute Peyote song Pow wow Tribal music articles Arapaho Blackfoot Dene Innu Inuit Iroquois Kiowa Kwakwaka'wakw Navajo Pueblo (Hopi, Zuni) Seminole Sioux (Lakota, Dakota) Yaqui music Yuman Related topics Music of the United States - Music of Canada Contents
Country and folk
- Jerry Alfred (Northern Tutchone) keeper of the songs
- Lana Chapel (Cherokee)
- Pura Fé (Tuscarora)
- Leela Gilday (Dené)[1]
- Peter La Farge (Narragansett)
- Buffy Sainte-Marie (Piapot Cree)
- Crystal Shawanda (Ojibway)
- Joanne Shenandoah (Iroquois)
Blues
- Murray Porter (Mohawk)
Gospel
Jazz
- Illinois Jacquet (Sioux)
- Andrea Menard (Métis)[2]
- Jim Pepper (Muscogee Creek/Kaw)
- Oscar Pettiford (Choctaw, Cherokee)
- Della Reese (Cherokee)
- Keely Smith (part Cherokee)
Native American flute
Main article: Native American flute- Timothy Archambault (Kichesipirini)
- Douglas Blue Feather (Cherokee)
- Joseph FireCrow (Cheyenne)
- Hawk Littlejohn (Eastern Band Cherokee)
- Charles Littleleaf (Warm Springs/Blackfoot)
- Kevin Locke (Lakota)
- Tom Mauchahty-Ware (Kiowa/Comanche)
- Bill Miller (Mahican)
- Robert Mirabal (Taos Pueblo)
- Michael Murphy (Cherokee)
- R. Carlos Nakai (Navajo/Ute)
- Sonny Nevaquaya (Comanche)
- Jay Red Eagle (Cherokee)
- John Two-Hawks (Lakota)
- Andrew Vasquez (Apache)
- Tommy Wildcat (Cherokee Nation-Muscogee Creek-Natchez)
- Mary Youngblood (Aleut/Seminole)
Native American Protest Singers
- Floyd Red Crow Westerman (Sesaton Oyate People/Dakota)
New age and world music
Pop and rock
- Susan Aglukark (Inuk)
- Tori Amos (part Eastern Cherokee)[3]
- Chuck Billy of Testament (Pomo)
- Jimmy Carl Black (Cheyenne)
- Blackfire (Diné)
- Jim Boyd (Colville)[4]
- Rita Coolidge (Cherokee)
- Jesse Ed Davis (Kiowa)
- Todd Griffin
- Ben Harper (Cherokee)
- Joy Harjo and Poetic Justice (Muscogee Creek/Cherokee)
- Jimi Hendrix (Cherokee)
- Indigenous (Nakota)
- Debora Iyall of Romeo Void (Cowlitz)
- Jana (Lumbee)
- George Leach (Sta'atl'imx)
- Aaron Neville
- Wayne Newton (part Powhatan and Cherokee)
- Grant-Lee Phillips (Creek)
- Elvis Presley (Part Cherokee)
- Red Earth
- Redbone
- Robbie Robertson (Mohawk)
- Keith Secola (Ojibwa)
- Ray St. Germain (Métis)[5]
- Kinnie Starr (part Mohawk)[6]
- Cree Summer (Cree)
- John Trudell (Santee Sioux)[7]
- Tina Turner (Navajo/Cherokee)[8]
- Steven Tyler (Cherokee)
- Carrie Underwood (Muscogee Creek)
- Kari Wührer (Cherokee)
- XIT
- Betty X (Cherokee)
Rap and hip hop
- AKU-MATU, Iñupiaq
- Amil (Cherokee)
- Anybody Killa (Lumbee)
- Bizzy Bone (Cherokee)
- Shar Jackson (Cherokee)
- Litefoot (Cherokee/Chichimeca)
- Solé (Blackfoot)
- Taboo (Shoshone)
- Isreal Loman Harlan (Omaha Nation)www.soundclick.com/isrealharlan
- Julian B. (Muskogee)
Everlast (Erik Schrody) is White Earth Band of Ojuibwe
Traditional music
See also
- Native American composers
References
- ^ MySpace.com "Leela Gilday". About Leela Gilday. http://www.myspace.com/leelagilday MySpace.com. Retrieved 2008-03-01.
- ^ "Andrea Menard". Artist. http://www.andreamenard.com/artist.html. Retrieved 2008-03-03.
- ^ "Infantry, Ashante: The Toronto Star © Copyright (1996-2008)". The faces of Tori Amos. 2007-05-01. http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/208990. Retrieved 2008-03-03.
- ^ "The Jim Boyd Band". Jim Boyd. Archived from the original on 2008-03-22. http://web.archive.org/web/20080322165935/http://www.thunderwolfrecords.com/kyot.htm. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
- ^ "NCI FM Aborignial Radio © (2008)". Ray St. Germain. Archived from the original on 2008-03-23. http://web.archive.org/web/20080323020359/http://www.ncifm.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16&Itemid=29. Retrieved 2008-03-03.
- ^ "MapleMusic Ltd. © (2000-2008)". Biography. http://www.maplemusic.com/artists/kst/bio.asp. Retrieved 2008-03-01.
- ^ "John Trudell". Biography. http://www.johntrudell.com/bio.html. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
- ^ "A&E Television Networks © (1996-2007)". Tina Turner Biography (1939– ). http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9512276. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
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