Biography

POLARIS PRIZE-WINNING ALBUM!
Power In The Blood, original release date: 05/12/2015
For more info contact: Eric Alper, eric@truenorthrecords.com

Buffy Sainte-Marie is an internationally renowned recording artist, activist, educator, visual artist, and winner of countless awards (Oscar, Juno, and Golden Globe, among them). With an esteemed career spanning five decades to date, Sainte-Marie is widely known for her 1960s protest anthems (“Universal Soldier”, “Now That The Buffalo’s Gone”), open-hearted love songs such as “Until It’s Time for You to Go” (which has been recorded by a lengthy list of international stars including Elvis Presley, Barbara Streisand, and Cher), incendiary powwow rockers like “Starwalker”, and the juggernaut Academy Award-winning pop hit “Up Where We Belong.”

Her bold 2017 album, Power in the Blood, is an honest reflection of the Cree singer-songwriter and begins where it all started more than 50 years ago, with a contemporary version of “It’s My Way,” the title track of her 1964 debut. Its message, about the road to self-identity and the conviction to be oneself, is one that still resonates with Sainte-Marie, and is among the hallmarks of her catalog – the eclecticism and compassion she brings to each album, oblivious to genre boundaries and production trends – that are in glorious bloom throughout Power in the Blood.

Enlisting the talents of producers Michael Wojewoda (Barenaked Ladies, Jeff Healey), Chris Birkett (Sinéad O'Connor, Bob Geldof) and Jon Levine (Melissa Etheridge, Serena Ryder), Power in the Blood features several brand new tracks and revisits three of her earlier songs with contemporary recordings. The title track was originally written and performed by the British band Alabama 3, which Sainte-Marie makes her own by reconfiguring the original lyrics into a potent antiwar statement: “When that call it comes/ I will say, no no no to war.”

Power in the Blood is Buffy Sainte-Marie’s eighteenth studio album, and only her fourth in more than 20 years; however, Sainte-Marie’s creativity is always in motion, and her passport's always in hand, touring for lectures and taking center stage around the world with her high-octane backing band.

Also see: Buffy Ste. Marie - Medicine Songs (2017)
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