Gentle Thunder, born Lisa Carpenter, is a Native American

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heritage with three solo albums to date. From

Kirkland, Washington Kirkland is a city in King County, Washington, United States. A suburb east of Seattle, its population was 92,175 in the 2020 U.S. census which made it the sixth largest city in the county and the twelfth largest in the state. The city's downto ...

, Gentle Thunder also plays the

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and

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instruments. In 2006 she released ''Beyond Words'' with

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and Amochip Dabney, two musicians who back

R. Carlos Nakai Raymond Carlos Nakai (born April 16, 1946) is a Native American flute, Native American flutist of Navajo people, Navajo and Ute people, Ute heritage. Nakai played brass instruments in high school and college, and auditioned for the Armed Forces ...

. The album was a 2006

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nominee for

Best New Age Album The Grammy Award for Best New Age Album is presented to recording artists for quality albums in the new-age music genre at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards. Honors in several c ...

. She has also collaborated with singer-songwriter Mariee Sioux.

Discography

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References

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