Talon Bazille

Talon Bazille is a rap artist, producer and sound designer from the Cheyenne River Lakota and Crow Creek Dakota tribes in South Dakota. He began recording at 13, and in high school, Bazille worked to stay in gifted and talented programs which became a means of recording. Always keeping with music, upon graduating with a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, Bazille released what he considers his “personal thesis” project: “Sake” (Talon in Dakota), a 51-track self-produced solo album. He has performed from local tribal halls to the Kennedy Center.

His work has also made its way to art exhibits, such as a recent collaboration with Dyani White Hawk & Leya Hale, “RELATIVE” - part of the Rising Sun Philly exhibition at PAFA. Serving as the sound designer in 2023 for Cornerstone Theatre Company’s Oceti Sakowin community play, “Wicoun”, Bazille later served as Indigenous music consultant in a play written by Larissa Fasthorse & Ty Defoe, called “For The People” which featured at The Guthrie in Minneapolis, MN. He currently works as the program manager for the Wicahpi Olowan Music Program & Recording Studio, via First Peoples Fund and in partnership with Playing For Change Foundation at the Oglala Lakota Artspace, that offers free studio access and other music programming in the community. With this, Bazille continues to also create and release albums, EPs and singles, like “Taku Sni” (Nobody in Lakota), “WCWW” (his Lakota name, Wakinyan Cante Waokiya Wicasa) & “Donnie Yeska” (or Don Iyeska - Iyeska meaning mixed-blood in Lakota).

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https://www.baztk.com/
https://www.facebook.com/BazilleDx/
https://www.instagram.com/bazilledx/
https://www.youtube.com/@BazilleWW/

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