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Inuit Soul Music and Dance Group • Active 1995 – Present • Indigenous Alaskan
Fast Facts
- Pamyua has four members.
- Phillip and Stephen Blanchett are brothers.
- Ossie Kairaiuak is a master Yup’ik drum maker, illustrator, and dancer.
- Karina Moeller joined the band in 1996 and composes and arranges some of their music.
- Pamyua is the Yup’ik word for Encore or Do it again.
- Pamyua created their own style of music by harmonizing and re-arranging traditional Inuit stories and melodies.
- Pamyua wrote the theme song for Molly of Denali.
- They have also written music for Flying Wild Alaska.
Musician of the Month Project 