WINNER -- SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR -- NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS
NOMINATED FOR "BEST COUNTRY CD" AT THE ABORIGINAL PEOPLES CHOICE MUSIC AWARDS
Singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, artist, actress, playwright. Yell any one of those professions out and Arigon Starr will raise her hand as the guilty party. Arigon is an enrolled member of the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma. Her mother is an enrolled member of the Muscogee Creek Nation of Oklahoma.
Arigon's music can be best described as Native Americana. She takes rock, country and folk and mixes it with her Native heritage and has come up with an energetic, crowd-pleasing blend of music. She has released three CD projects and toured across the U.S. at a variety of venues.
Starr's latest CD The Red Road -- Original Cast Recording received the award for Outstanding Musical Achievement (Contemporary) at the 2007 First Americans in the Arts Awards in Beverly Hills, CA. The title track was engineered and mixed by legendary producer Dusty Wakeman at Mad Dog Studios. The CD features performances by an A-List team of musicians including Kenny Vaughan, Doug Pettibone, Stuart Duncan, Chris Lawrence, Gary Bennett, Scotty Lund, Thaddeus Graham and John Hatton. The CD features 18 new songs -- ten of which are in her one woman show.
She is also a working actress in Hollywood and has appeared on the Showtime Networks series "Barbershop" and on ABC-TV's long-running daytime drama "General Hospital."
Her one-woman show "The Red Road" has received rave reviews from THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, DAILY VARIETY and INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY. The play was produced by Native Voices at the Autry and debuted at the Autry National Center's Wells Fargo Theater on March 30, 2006. "The Red Road" has also been performed at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC and New York City. Arigon and Native Voices at the Autry will be bringing the show to Tulsa, Oklahoma's Gilcrease Museum in November 2007.
Arigon's latest project is the radio series "Super Indian," which follows the adventures of Hubert Logan, his sidekick General Bear and Diogi, a Rez Dog with an incredible vocabulary. "Super Indian" is produced by Native Voices at the Autry in conjunction with the Native Radio Theater Project. The first ten episodes of the series were recorded live at the Autry National Center in April 2007 and premiered on the Native Voice One radio service in November 2007.
Super Indian will also be written and drawn and put into comic book form by Miss Starr herself. The graphic novel will be released very, very soon. Watch this space!
I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4
