Jim Boyd (singer)

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Jim Boyd in concert

Jim Boyd (born 1956 at Edwards Air Force Base , Lancaster , California - June 21, 2016 ) was a singer / songwriter, actor and member of the Jim Boyd Band in the Colville Reservation in Washington . Boyd has played in various Native American music groups.

Life

Jim Boyd grew up as the son of a sergeant (master sergeant) on various American air force bases. He belonged to the Sinixt ( Arrow Lakes Band), one of twelve divisions of the Colville tribe , a subgroup of the Spokane . Boyd's grandfather was a Zurich citizen who emigrated to America in 1914 at the age of 18 and married a Colville Indian. When not at an airbase, the family lived in Inchelium, a town on the Colville Reservation in Ferry County , the area where both parents grew up. At the end of their father's service they moved to Inchelium.

After high school , Boyd enrolled at Washington University . It seemed so big and strange there that he returned to Inchelium after a few months. From then on he devoted himself to music. At sixteen he played in a band in his aunt's bar. Tom Bee , the owner and president of Sound of America Records saw the 23-year-old play and hooked him up with the band XIT in Albuquerque , with whom Jim was touring Europe. After XIT broke up, he was the lead singer in various Native American bands such as Winterhawk and Greywolf .

Boyd was a cultural officer on the Colville Business Council .

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He is one of the most famous indigenous songwriters and has received several Native American Music Awards. His songs tell of the life of Native Americans today. Boyd sang four songs with lyrics by Sherman Alexie for the soundtrack of the film Smoke Signals in 1998 and appeared in Alexie's film The Business of Fancydancing .

Awards

  • 1999 2nd Native American Music Awards for best compilation in the film Smoke Signals
  • 2000 Native American Music Awards nomination for Jim Boyd & Rez Bound
  • 2002 nomination at the 5th Native American Music Awards as Artist of the Year for AlterNatives, as a singer-songwriter for Live At The Met and Record of the Year for AlterNatives .
  • 2003 nomination for the best pop / rock song for live
  • 2004 nomination for the album Going to the Stick Games
  • 2006 songwriter of the year with the song Them Old Guitars and three nominations for the album of the same name

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jim Boyd, singer-songwriter and chairman of the Colville Tribes, dies
  2. ↑ The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation: Business Council ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.colvilletribes.com
personal data
SURNAME Boyd, Jim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Indian musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Edwards Air Force Base , Lancaster , California , United States
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 2016