Annie Humphrey
Native American singer/songwriter Annie Humphrey was born and raised on an Ojibwe Indian reservation in Minnesota, the daughter of author Anne Dunn. Her father taught her to play the guitar when she was in the first grade, and two years after that she taught herself piano and began writing songs. After attending high school and a community college, she teamed with guitarist Don Robinson and they made the 1989 album For the Children, which was released regionally. She spent a year in the Marines, stationed in Okinawa, among other places, and played in bands during this period. Returning to Minnesota, she attended the Police Academy and graduated, but decided not to pursue a career in law enforcement. Instead, she enrolled at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, where she studied art and began performing professionally at coffeehouses. In 1995, she made her first solo album, Justice Hunter, which was released regionally. She moved back to the Ojibwe reservation and began performing around northern Minnesota. She sang three songs on the various-artists album The Whispering Tree, released by the independent label Makoché, and Makoché signed her to a contract, giving her her first nationally distributed release, The Heron Smiled, in 2000.
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Discography
5 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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The Sound of Ribbons
Folk - Released by Red Cedar Music on 1 Jan 2008
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Eat What You Kill
Folk - Released by Savage Daughter on 6 Nov 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Light in My Bones
Pop - Released by Annie Humphrey on 31 Oct 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Tinda Song
Annie Humphrey, Man Behaving Dadly
Pop - Released by Nub Music on 13 Dec 2019
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo