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Of Navajo-Ute heritage, R. Carlos Nakai is the world’s premier performer of the Native American flute.  He began his musical studies on the trumpet, but a car accident ruined his embouchure.  His musical interests took a turn when he was given a traditional cedar flute as a gift and challenged to master it.  As an artist, he is an adventurer and risk taker, always giving his musical imagination free rein.  Nakai is also an iconoclastic traditionalist who views his cultural heritage not only as a source and inspiration, but also a dynamic continuum of natural change, growth, and adaptation subject to the artist’s expressive needs. 

      Nakai’s first album, Changes, was released by Canyon Records in 1983, and since then he has released over thirty-five albums with Canyon plus additional albums and guest appearances on other labels.  In addition to his educational workshops and residencies, Nakai has appeared as a soloist throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan, and has worked with Grammy® winner flutist Paul Horn, guitarist/luthier William Eaton, composer James DeMars among many others. The famed American choreographer Martha Graham used Nakai's second album, Cycles, in her last work Night Chant.  Nakai contributed music to the major motion pictures New World (New Line) and Geronimo (Columbia).
            
      Nakai, while cognizant of the traditional use of the flute as a solo instrument, began finding new settings for it, especially in the genres of jazz and classical.  He founded the ethnic jazz ensemble,  the R. Carlos Nakai Quartet, to explore the intersection of ethnic and jazz idioms.
 
      Nakai brought the flute into the concert hall, performing with over fifteen symphony and chamber orchestras. He was a featured soloist on the Philip Glass composition, Piano Concerto No. 2: After Lewis & Clark, premiered by the Omaha Symphony.  Nakai also works with producer and arranger Billy Williams, a two-time Grammy® winner, in composing for and performing the traditional flute in orchestral works of a lighter vein. 

            In a cross-cultural foray, Nakai performed extensively with the Wind Travelin’ Band, a traditional Japanese ensemble from Kyoto which resulted in an album, Island of Bows.  Additional recordings with ethnic artists include In A Distant Place with Tibetan flutist and chanter Nawang Khechog, and Our Beloved Land with famed Hawaiian slack key guitarist and singer Keola Beamer.  Recently, Nakai released Voyagers with Philadelphia Orchestra cellist Udi Bar-David which blends Native American melodies with Jewish and Arabic songs.  
            
            Nakai has received two gold records (500,000 units sold) for Canyon Trilogy and Earth Spirit which are the first (and only) Native American recordings to earn this recognition.  He has sold over four million albums in the course of his career.  His Grammy® nominations include:

Ancestral Voices (1994 Best Traditional Folk Album)
Inner Voices and Inside Monument Valley (both for 2000 Best New Age Album)
In A Distant Place (2001 Best New Age Album)
Fourth World (2002 Best New Age Album)
Sanctuary (2003 Best Native American Album)
People of Peace (2004 Best New Age Album)
Reconnections (2008 Best Native American Album)
Dancing Into Silence (2010 Best New Age Album)
A Navy veteran, Nakai earned a Master’s Degree in American Indian Studies from the University of Arizona.  He was awarded the Arizona Governor’s Arts Award in 1992, and an honorary doctorate from Northern Arizona University in 1994.  In 2005 Nakai was inducted into the Arizona Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame.  Nakai has also authored a book with composer James DeMars, The Art of the Native American Flute, which is a guide to performing the traditional cedar flute

ALBUMS:
R. Carlos Nakai - Ancient Future (2000) @192
R. Carlos Nakai - Big Medicine (1998) @128
R. Carlos Nakai - Cycles (1985) @320
R. Carlos Nakai - Desert Dance (1989) @128
R. Carlos Nakai - Emergence @128
R. Carlos Nakai - Fourth World (2002) @320
R. Carlos Nakai - Inner Voices @128
R. Carlos Nakai - Island Of Bows (1994) @320
R. Carlos Nakai - Kokopelli's Cafe  (1996) @VR
R. Carlos Nakai - Mythic Dreamer @192
R. Carlos Nakai - SunDance Season @192
R. Carlos Nakai & Cliff Sarde - Enter Tribal (2001) @VR
R. Carlos Nakai & James Demars - Native Tapestry @192
R. Carlos Nakai & Keola Beamer - Our Beloved Land - Sedas Letters @128
R. Carlos Nakai & Nawang Khechog  - Winds of Devotion (1998) @192
R. Carlos Nakai & Peter Kater - How the West Was Lost @256
R. Carlos Nakai & Udi Bar David - Voyagers @320
R. Carlos Nakai & William Eaton - Ancestral Voices @320
R. Carlos Nakai & William Eaton - Carry The Gift @VR
R. Carlos Nakai & William Eaton & Will Clipman - Feather Stone & Light (1995) @192
Paul Horn & R. Carlos Nakai - Inside Canyon de Chelly @192
Paul Horn & R. Carlos Nakai - inside monument vally @128
Peter Kater & R. Carlos Nakai - How The West Was Lost II (BSO) @VR
Peter Kater & R. Carlos Nakai - Natives @128
Peter Kater & R. Carlos Nakai - Song for Humanity - A Celebration of Ten Years (1998) @VR
Peter Kater & R. Carlos Nakai - through windows & walls @256
Peter Kater & R. Carlos Nakai (Migration) @128
Peter Kater & R. Carlos Nakai-Honorable Sky @192
Peter Kater & R.Carlos Nakai - improvisations in concert @256

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