Artist: Golana
Genre(s):
Ambient
New Age
Discography:
Lone Pine Canyon
Year: 2004
Tracks: 11
Moon Of First Snow
Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
Feather On The Wind
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Walk Between Worlds
Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
Path To The Heart
Year: 1999
Tracks: 9
Native American flutist Golaná was natural Scott Cunningham and raised as an Anglo-American. He was first gear attracted to euphony through christian church hymns and began four days of forte-piano lessons at ashcan School, followed by four age of trumpet in schoolhouse bands; he began playacting guitar at 15. He gradational from San Diego State University with a B.S. in Information Systems Management and got his master's degree in Systems Management from U.S.C. After a bodied life history, he started his own data processor software program consulting line in the mid-'80s. At the same time, having recovered from dose and alcohol colony, he embarked on a spiritual search that lED him to study Native American culture. His interest was given greater drift when an auntie told him that his great-great-grandmother was a Cherokee, making him sixteenth part Native American. Turning to the flute, he began performing a Native American style of new eld music, also influenced by '70s common people and rock. In a Cherokee ceremony, he was christened Golaná, which means predate. Responding to inquiries about his euphony, he began issue it on records, beginning with Track to the Heart and chronic with Walk Between Worlds and 2000's Feather on the Wind.
