Raven Chacon

The Navajo composer, artist, and musician Raven Chacon is the first Native American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He performs solo, often in the noise music genre, and is a member of various groups with which he collaborates on multimedia presentations. Chacon has a substantial recording catalog that cannot always be categorized easily by genre. He released the album Raven Chacon: Voiceless Mass in 2025. Chacon was born in 1977 on the Navajo Reservation in Fort Defiance, Arizona. He earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts in 2001 and went on to the California Institute...