Biography

Bill Miller (Mohican) is an award-winning Native American recording artist, performer, songwriter, activist, painter, and world-class native flute player. Over the entirety, Miller has produced over a dozen albums, received three GRAMMY® Awards, numerous Native American Music Awards and Association awards (including a “Lifetime Achievement Award”) and led the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra. Miller was recently featured on Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited, on which he performed the title track, and a groundbreaking new recording of his song, “My People,” with Swedish-sami jojk-singer, hiphop musician, and actress Maxida Märak. His discography includes such landmark albums as Loon, Mountain , And Moon, The Red Road, Reservation Road: Live, Raven In The Snow, Ghost Dance, and The Art Of Survival. His song “Tumbleweed,” co-written with Peter Rowan, was included on the album Dustbowl Children. In 1995, Bill Miller’s Native Flute playing was featured on the Vanessa Williams song, Colors Of The Wind, the theme song on Disney’s Pocahontas film soundtrack, winning a GRAMMY® Award and both the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. 2018 finds Bill Miller dividing his time between the studio - collaborating with his “musical brother,” John Carter Cash (son of American music icon Johnny Cash) and other top talents - and touring with Native American master percussionist Ken Lingad (Isleta).