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Pura Fé

Pura Fe is best known as the founder and leader of the acclaimed Native American female a capella trio, Ulali.  With the trio, she has performed in countless concert halls, festivals, colleges, Indian powwows and benefits for humanitarian rights in North American and around the world.  Along with a few other musical pioneers, Pura Fe is credited with creating a new genre, Contemporary Native American Music.

Pura Fe has launched a solo career and is touring internationally behind her new album, Follow Your Heart’s Desire, released by Music Maker Recordings.  Her soulful voice and lap steel slide guitar provide a fresh take on acoustic blues.  In the album, Pura Fe resurrects the Native American influence on the birth of the blues.  “I’ve been trying for years to get people to and recognize Native American contributions to the blues,” she explains.  “It’s an important story and when its descendants tell it right, it will build a bridge between Native music and the mainstream.  People will finally acknowledge our part in the creation of American roots music and culture.”

Pura Fe’s musical inheritance comes from her mother, a classically trained opera singer who toured with the Duke Ellington Orchestra.  She represents the fourth generation of gifted female singers whose voice stems out of North Carolina, the ancestral homeland of the Tuscarora nations. 
Pura Fe’s solo career launch has been an auspicious one: she won Female Artist of the Year at the 2006 Native American Music Awards.

 “With her voice soaring, footstomping, this beautiful songbird transcends time and brings the message of our Ancestors who have sewn this beautiful seed, that make powerful music.” Taj Mahal

“Like all truly great singers, Pura Fe has the power to move your.  With a potent mix of Native American influences and good old fashioned blues, her voice is ‘soul’ itself.” Benjamin Bratt, Actor

“Neil Young made the evening into something of an acoustic music festival, presenting three fabulous act before him.  Each was astonishing in his or her own way.  Playing searing, slicing lap-style bottneck guitar, Tuscarora tribe descendant Pura Fe blended world beat rhythms with Southern blues and her own powerful vocals.” Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle on October 5, 2004 Concert