Featuring: Lyla June
Lyla June is an Indigenous musician, scholar and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Her dynamic, multi-genre presentation style has engaged audiences across the globe towards personal, collective and ecological healing. She blends studies in Human Ecology at Stanford, graduate work in Indigenous Pedagogy, and the traditional worldview she grew up with to inform her music, perspectives and solutions. Her current doctoral research focuses on Indigenous food systems revitalization.
Today she shares her new single and video for North Star featuring lyricst, producer & community educator Quincy Davis:
The song is available for purchase on Bandcamp, with 100% of proceeds benefiting Seventh Generation Fund: a nonprofit that supports Indigenous communities and their future generations.
June and Davis are both former drug addicts who have come together on North Star to express a shared experience with faith, transformation and liberation from toxic shame. Pleading to the Creator, "Help me see me through your eyes, so my broken wings can fly," the song illustrates their right to walk a good path in life: holding on to the sacredness of who they are in the face of any voice that tells them otherwise.
“I wrote this song for anyone who is struggling to love themselves. To remind us all to pray for the ability to see ourselves through Creator's eyes and to walk as what we are.” - Lyla June
On September 6th, Lyla will also join Chicago’s Summer Music Series as part of Sicangu Lakota hip-hop artist Frank Waln’s co-curated evening of performances by Indigenous musicians including Anishinaabe singer-songwriter Leonard Sumner and Native American rapper Tall Paul.
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