Rudy Parris
May 1, 2017 Navajo/Apache country artist Rudy Parris hails from California's San Joaquin Valley. Growing up, he was a big KISS fan while also feeling deeply rooted in country music. He is …
February 26, 2024 Alaska-based Indigenous songwriter Ashley Young is a hopeful romantic with unforgettable vocal warmth. Her lovesick disposition is a light-hearted lens to radical reclamation. …
February 19, 2024 This week's musical journey takes us through a diverse selection of Indigenous music, showcasing both established favorites and emerging talents. The playlist spans …
February 12, 2024 Pamyua was formed in April 1995 by brothers Phillip and Stephen Blanchett. The brothers stumbled upon a musical concept to blend Inuit drum/dance …
May 1, 2017 Navajo/Apache country artist Rudy Parris hails from California's San Joaquin Valley. Growing up, he was a big KISS fan while also feeling deeply rooted in country music. He is …
April 24, 2017 Singer-songwriter Iskwé is a genre-bending Cree/Dené artist from Winnipeg. Her unique brand of trip-hop music is culture conscious, focusing on issues such as the 1,200 missing and murdered indigenous …
April 10, 2017 Paul LaRoche is the founding member of the legendary group Brulé. Adopted at birth from the Lower Brule Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota, he wasn't aware of …
March 13, 2017 Lead vocalist and guitarist J.J. Otero grew up singing in church, picked up the guitar at age 17, and started the band Saving Damsels in 2007. That band …
February 13, 2017 Electronic music duo Once A Tree consists of Saulteaux singer Jayli Wolf and her husband Hayden John Wolf. Both Jayli and Hayden grew up as Jehovah's witnesses and …
February 6, 2017 Steven Rushingwind, award-winning Native American flutist of Rushingwind & Mucklow and the Rushingwind Project shares with us his third solo album and latest release, "Red Beaten Path". Steven …
Indigefi special documentary with Host/Producer Alexis Sallee A one-hour special radio documentary about the resurgence of Iñupiaq drum and dance traditions in Alaska, framed with narration, interviews, and live dance performances.
November 7, 2016 Bonnie Couchie is an Ojibway artist from Pic River First Nation, Ontario. Though Bonnie didn’t start pursuing music until she was 30 years old, her songwriting is vulnerable …
October 10, 2016 Of Oklahoma Cherokee descent, Barbara A. Warren is also known as Shining Woman. She founded the women's drum group Otsigeya in 2009. The album Keeper of the Family …
September 26, 2016 Lance Canales grew up in Central California where he worked to help his family make ends meet, in agriculture and also employing his gift for training wild horses. …
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Alexis Sallee is Iñupiaq and Mexican and grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. Her love of filmmaking and sound found its start in radio. After attending Full Sail University where she earned a Bachelors of Science in Recording Arts, she took her skills to L.A. There she worked in audio post-production on various film and television projects including Oculus, Poltergeist, Birth of the Dragon, NBC’s Allegiance, and Showtime documentary Play It Forward. She served as Co-Director and Producer of the 2018 documentary “Definition of Resilience”, which highlights the dynamic stories of Indigenous hip-hop MCs. In 2019, she wrote and directed her debut short film "Who We Are" a personal project dedicated to her Iñupiaq ancestors. Alexis continues to work on cultural visual projects that honors Indigenous stories and people. She has been host and producer of INDIGEFI, formerly Earthsongs, since 2013.