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Jay Begaye - The Colorful World
- What can you say about Native American music, especially if you do not know what they are saying. You definitely feel the drums and can tell when it is Native American. They have a very distinctive way of singing and playing music and introducing their music to the world. I do wish they would put some more instruments in their songs, for I think their harmony is excellent and would go great against some pianos and guitars and electronics. But this is asking for over hundreds of generational changes to occur and it may or may not happen, but one can wish. Jay Begaye is a singer, songwriter, painter, sculptor and a former rodeo contestant. He was born and raised on the Navajo Reservation in the small town of Steamboat Canyon, Arizona.
After attending his first Pow Wow in Salt Lake City, he later started to compose and sing his own songs. From 1982-1986, Jay began singing with a noted drum group, the White Eagle Singers and later moved to Canada. There he formed his own group, the Cathedral Lake Singers. The very amazing thing about this CD is that Jay Begaye has let us into his world and allowed us to venture musically and experience things such as The Purple Horizon Chicken Dance and Yellowstone Dawn, through his voice and through the drummers.
Reviewer: Erika Ellis
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Added: 5-Mar-2006
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