Keith Secola (born 1957) is an
Ojibwe
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American musician who plays
rock and roll
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,
folk rock
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,
folk
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, and
reggae
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. A singer-songwriter, he also plays guitar and flute.
Secola was born in
Cook, Minnesota
Cook is a city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 515 at the 2010 census.
U.S. Highway 53 and State Highway 1 (MN 1) are the two main routes through the city. Cook serves as the gateway to the western half o ...
. He is married and has 2 children. In 1982 he graduated from the
University of Minnesota
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with a degree in American Indian Studies.
His band has had the names the Wild Band of Indians, the Wild Javelinas, and Wild Onions. He has contributed songs to
documentary film
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s, including ''Homeland'', ''Patrick's Story'' and ''Dodging Bullets''. He won "best artist" at the 2006
Native American Music Awards
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for the album ''Native Americana''. He is perhaps best known for his upbeat, folk rock song, "NDN Kars" from the film ''
Dance Me Outside
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''.
[Dance Me Outside Soundtrack]
/ref> Secola's music was used for the score of the documentary Dodging Bullets—Stories from Survivors of Historical Trauma as the music associates growing up Native
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As an activist he has worked with Irene Bedard
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on environmental and Native American issues.
Discography
Web sources
External links
Keith Secola's Home page
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1957 births
Native American musicians
Ojibwe people
Living people
University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts alumni
American male singer-songwriters
20th-century American singers
20th-century American male singers
21st-century American singers
21st-century American male singers
People from St. Louis County, Minnesota
Don Giovanni Records artists
Singer-songwriters from Minnesota