Jim Boyd (musician)
Jim Boyd ( born 1956 at Edwards Air Force Base, Lancaster, California ) is a singer / songwriter, actor and member of the Jim Boyd Band in the Colville Reservation in Washington. Boyd has played in various Native American music groups.
Life
Jim Boyd grew up as the son of a warrant officer (master sergeant ) on various American air bases. He belongs to the Sinixt ( Arrow Lakes band ), one at twelve divisions of the tribe of the Colville, a subset of Spokane. Boyd's grandfather was a Zurich, the 18 -year-old emigrated to America in 1914 and married a Colville Indian. If the family is not just staying at a airbase, she lived in Inchelium, a town of Colville Reservation in Ferry County, in the area where both parents were growing up. At the end of the period of service of the father they moved to Inchelium.
After high school, Boyd enrolled at Washington University. It seemed to him there, however, so large and strange to him that he returned after a few months of Inchelium. From then on he devoted himself to music. At sixteen, he played in a band in the bar of his aunt. Tom Bee, the owner and president of the Sound of America Records saw play the 23 -year-old and took him with the band XIT in Albuquerque together, went on a European tour with Jim. After the dissolution of XIT was the lead singer in various Native American bands such as Winterhawk and Grey Wolf.
Boyd is responsible for culture in the Colville Business Council.
Work
He is one of the most famous indigenous songwriter and has been repeatedly awarded the Native American Music Award. His songs tell of the lives of today's Native Americans. Boyd sang four songs in 1998 with lyrics by Sherman Alexie for the soundtrack of the film Smoke Signals and performed in Alexies film The Business of Fancydancing.