Kevin Lewis

This Arizona native is responsible for two major collections of works in the Native American genre. His Navajo Peyote Songs collects 60 different songs over two volumes and represents one of the major studies of these songs available on recordings. In addition, Kevin Lewis has recorded two volumes of Ceremonial Songs and Dances of the Cherokee, representing music the Cherokee/Navajo native learned from his grandfather Bud Lewis who was 116 years old, and apparently also an active singer when the recordings were made, although he seems to have left cutting the tracks up to the ...