List of Native American musicians
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All individuals on this list should have Native American ancestry. Historical figures might predate tribal enrollment practices and would be included based on ethnological tribal membership, while any contemporary individuals should either be enrolled members of federally recognized tribes or have cited Native American ancestry and be recognized as being Native American by their respective tribes(s). Contemporary unenrolled individuals are listed as being of descent from a tribe.
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Country and folk
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Gospel
- Johnny P. Curtis (San Carlos Apache)
- The Jody Brown Indian Family (Eastern Cherokee)
- Klaudt Indian Family
- Jason Upton (of Cherokee descent)
Jazz
- Carl T. Fischer (Cherokee)
- Jim Pepper (Muscogee Creek-Kaw)
- Oscar Pettiford (Choctaw-Cherokee)
- Charles Lloyd (Cherokee)
- Keely Smith (jazz singer) (Cherokee)
Native American flute
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- Timothy Archambault (Kichesipirini)
- Douglas Blue Feather (Cherokee)
- Robert "Tree" Cody (Hunkpapa/Maricopa)
- Joseph FireCrow (Cheyenne)
- Hawk Littlejohn (Eastern Band Cherokee)
- Charles Littleleaf (Warm Springs/Blackfoot)
- Kevin Locke (Lakota)
- Jan Michael Looking Wolf (Kalapuya)
- 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 Nation)
- Andrew Vasquez (Apache)
- Tommy Wildcat (Cherokee Nation-Muscogee Creek-Natchez)
- Mary Youngblood (Aleut-Seminole)
Native American protest singers
New age and world music
- Brulé (Sioux)
- Karina Lombard (Lakota)
- Joanne Shenandoah (Mohawk)
- Ulali (Tuscarora/Apache/Yaqui)
Pop and rock
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- Chuck Billy of Testament (Pomo)
- Jimmy Carl Black (Cheyenne)
- Blackfire (Diné)
- Jim Boyd (Colville)[4]
- Todd Tamanend Clark (Seneca and Lenape)[5]
- Rita Coolidge (of Cherokee descent)
- Jesse Ed Davis (Kiowa)
- Willy DeVille (Pequot)
- Champion Jack Dupree (Cherokee)
- Joy Harjo and Poetic Justice (Muscogee and Cherokee)
- Jimi Hendrix (Cherokee)
- Indigenous (Nakota)
- Debora Iyall of Romeo Void (Cowlitz)
- Jana (Lumbee)
- Grant-Lee Phillips (Muscogee (Creek)), Red Earth
- Redbone, members are mostly Yaqui
- Robbie Robertson (Mohawk)
- Keith Secola (Ojibwa)
- John Trudell (Santee Sioux)[6]
- XIT, members are Colville, Isleta Pueblo, Diné, and Muscogee Creek
Rap and hip hop
- Amil (self-identified Cherokee descent)
- Anybody Killa (Lumbee)
- Corporate Avenger
- Julian B. (Muskogee)
- Kid Cudi (Cherokee)
- Litefoot (Cherokee Nation-Chichimeca)
- Solé (Blackfoot)
- Taboo (Shoshone)
Powwow music
See also
References
- ↑ Notable American Indians
- ↑ Famous Native Americans
- ↑ "IV. Our Nation’s American Indian and Alaska Native Citizens." US Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
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