ADRIAN "A. DION" HARJO
Las Vegas, NV
PRODUCER, SINGER, SONGWRITER.
Genre: Various
Adrian Dion Harjo, aka A. Dion "Tha Producer," is a member of the Kickapoo/Seminole and Mexican Nations.
He was born in Lawton, Oklahoma, and was raised by his mother in Kansas City, Kansas.
A. Dion began singing and dancing at a very early age. "One of the earliest memories I have, is being at a Pow Wow in
Oklahoma with this guy named Sterling and having no outfit, bustles, or beadwork, but still going out ther and
dancing." Singing soon followed as Adrian moved with his mother in KCK and began life in the Urbaness of an area
of Kansas City known as "Central." Being submerged in a community primarily made up of African American and Latin
Americans, the urge to dance still resided in the young to be producer one day. "Breakdancing," as it was known
back in those days, was becoming very popular at the time, and being that Pow Wows were very few and far beyond
in the inner city, breakdancing it was.
In addition to that, Adrian would spark his interest with his mother's old vinyl collection of 45's. "DJ" was the
name of the game, and sitting there listening to the classics of Motown, Sade, Grand Funk Railroad, Frankie Limon,
George Jones, and not to mention the occassional "Mexican" record from his grandmother or aunties, he began
developing his unique taste for music. This lead to summer camp through the Heart of America Indian Center, where
he learned to sing Pow Wow style songs, and soon joined Eagle Talon Brotherhood. The Brotherhood taught a young
boy about the ways of the arena, Gourd Dance, Stomp Dance, amont other traditional teaching.
With all that behind him now, and as an original member of the Grammy and Nammy winning Drum Group "Tha Tribe,"
A. Dion decided to make music a career, as well as, a way of LIFE.
You can hear A. Dion's music from film and television (Moccassin Flats, Karha: Kon), to live theatre (Kanata
Native Dance Theatre's presentation of "The Peacemaker"), Pow Wow and Flute Music (mastered "Raining Thunder" and
"IronBoy" for Drumhop Records, Stoney Creek - Pow Wow Trail Blazin, "Tha Tribe - T2k and "Live" from
Tornado Alley), Hip Hop and R&B, among other projects soon to be released.
Once told that he was "too mainstream for Native Music," this trendsetter and trailblazer could possibly be the
"most known unknow" you've never even heard of. You betta ask somebody!
For more info:
myspace.com/adionmusic
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