Turns out, like most college students, Hataałii (pronounced: Hah-toth-lee) was running late due to computer issues. After getting up around noon and watching Navajo Cops, the 20-year-old University of New Mexico film major (he “thinks” he’s a junior) has a laid-back, sunshiny warmth that preludes a refreshingly casual chat. The fact that this interview takes place on the precipice of the June 30 release of his newest album, Singing Into Darkness, does not inspire urgency or any PR-training sales tactics, but rather a Spicoli-esque, easy-does-it, in-the-moment realness. This is a good thing.
Hataałiinez Wheeler was raised in Window Rock, Arizona, the capital of Navajo Nation — Tségháhoodzání in Navajo. The album cover is
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