John Two-Hawks is a Native American performing and recording artist who identifies as Oglala Lakota. He has been performing professionally in live concerts since the late 1980s. He sings and plays many instruments, but is perhaps best known as a virtuoso player of the Native American flute. He is featured as the Native American vocalist and cedar flute player for the song "Creek Mary's Blood" on the Nightwish album Once. He also appeared on Nightwish's End of an Era CD/DVD, a recording of their live performance in Helsinki, Finland on October 21, 2005. Other collaborations include concerts and recordings with Celtic singer and flutist Seamus Byrne, classical guitarist Sir Charles Hammer, pianist Bastiaan Pot and guitarist/bass player Van Adams. He contributed music to the accompanying audio CD for How Not To Catch Fish and Other Adventures of Iktomi, written by Joseph M. Marshall III and illustrated by Joseph Chamberlain, which was published in 2005. He contributed to George S. Clinton's musical score for the HBO production of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee which originally aired in May 2007, was released as a soundtrack CD in 2007, and earned one of 17 Emmy nominations. 

January 1st, 2000 in (Age 24)