Mary Youngblood

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Mary Youngblood

Mary Youngblood (* in Sacramento , California is an American flautist of Indian descent ( Aleut / Seminole )).

With her fifth album Dance with the Wind , she won the 2007 Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album . She produced Dance With the Wind during Northern California's 2006 Winter Storms . Her fourth album Feed the Fire was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2005. Even Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull , Bill Miller and Joanne Shenandoah were involved in the album. She dedicated the song Feed the Fire to her parents. Her third album, Beneath the Raven Moon , won a Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album in 2003 and was produced by Tom Wasinger . On her album she combines native American music with classical music and blues . She produced her second album Heart of the World together with Joanne Shenandoah. Heart of the World won the INDIE Award for Best Native American Recording and in 2000 the Native American Music Award (NAMMY) for Best New Age Recording . Her debut album, The Offering , was recorded in an underground chamber in the Moaning Cavern , California, with natural acoustics and amazing echo. Some of her songs are also part of the film Naturally Native (1998), produced, written and directed exclusively by Native Americans . She also composed the music for the documentary The Spirit of Sacajawea (2007).

Mary Youngblood plays the piano, violin, flute, guitar and native flute , which is traditionally only played by men. She owns over 250 hand-carved Native American style flutes and uses a variety of them in each of her albums. Mary Youngblood lives in Northern California .

Albums

  • Sacred Place - A Mary Youngblood Collection (2008)
  • Dance with the Wind (2006)
  • Feed the Fire (2004)
  • Beneath the Raven Moon (2002)
  • Heart of the World (1999)
  • The Offering (1998)

Awards

Mary Youngblood won two Grammy Awards for Best Native American Music Album and the INDIE Award for Best Native American Recording . She won the Native American Music Award (NAMMY) six times a . a. for Best New Age Recording , as Best Female Artist , Flutist of the Year and Best Producer .

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