Artist / Producer / Performer

Frank Waln is an award winning Sicangu Lakota Hip Hop artist and music producer from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. He has been featured in Buzzfeed, The Fader, Playboy, Vibe, NPR, ESPN, and MTV’s Rebel Music Native America. Waln has written for various publications including Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education, and Society and The Guardian.

Waln travels the world telling his story through performance and doing workshops focusing on self-empowerment and expression of truth.

• Recipient of the Gates Millennium Scholarship
• Received a BA in Audio Arts and Acoustics from Columbia College Chicago
• Three Native American Music Awards
• 2014 Native American 40 Under 40 recipient from National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development
• 2014 Chicago Mayor’s Award for Civic Engagement
• 2016 3Arts Grant for Chicago Artists

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