Michael Tekaronianeken Diabo

Composer / DJ / live musician
I Dream in Wampum

Based in Punamu’kwati’jk (Dartmouth, NS), Michael Tekaronianeken Diabo is a Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) composer, arranger, guitarist, educator, and ukulele fanatic from Kahnawake. He has been nominated for a Genie Award, and won the Atlantic Film Festival Craft Award. Many of his songs have been licensed for use in television, movies, and the web.

Michael works as a performer and composer with A’no:wara Dance Theatre, and has spent the last while looking at music through the lens of Indigenous Futurism. He is also a member of Canada’s longest running, award winning instrumental surf band Urban Surf Kings.