Mato nanji biography channel

Blues has long been a natural outlet for those facing struggle and oppression, whether  in a ghetto or on a American Indian reservation.

Mato Nanji, vocalist/guitarist for the rock-blues band Indigenous, was raised on South Dakota’s Yankton Sioux Reservation.

Nanji says, “B.B. King told me that the blues can take you out of all that and make you feel better. Blues doesn’t make you more depressed. It’s the kind of music that can make you feel more proud of what you’re doing and what you’re feeling and what’s going on in your life. That’s what connected me to that type of music. It’s deep-rooted music, and a lot of the natives were really into it back in the old days, people like Charley Patton (part Cherokee and considered byt some to be the father of the Delta Blues).”

Nanji’s grabbing original songs, soulful vocals and searing guitar riffs power Indigenous. He dedicated the band’s latest album, “T