The Music & Story of Mato Wayuhi
This Oglala Lakota artist brought his own unique Indigenous sound to the world.
Musician & producer. Composer for the award-winning "Reservation Dogs." Member of the Forbes' elite "30 Under 30" list in 2023. Check out the following video to see why Mato Wayuhi is truly one of South Dakota's great faces.
South Dakota's own Mato Wayuhi
Mato’s music is everything that good Indigenous art is right now. We are in a Renaissance, and his music speaks directly to that movement. It’s unapologetic, it doesn’t need permission to exist and it’s made with an urgency — an urgency to move us into a new era.
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