Byron Nicholai - Tengauryugtua (I Want To Fly)
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Byron Nicholai - "Tengauryugtua (I Want To Fly)" from the 2022 album Ayagnera (The Beginning) on Tuallu Entertainment.
\\nBack in 2014, a young Byron Nicholai went viral when he began posting videos of himself singing in the Indigenous Yup\'ik language on Facebook. The media even dubbed him the "Justin Bieber of Alaska."\\xa0
\\nSince then, he\'s relocated from the coastal town of Toksook Bay to Anchorage, to "get faster internet," he confessed to KYUK. \\u201cI feel like it would mess with my momentum a little bit, \'cause sometimes I\\u2019d be excited to work on a track, but then having internet problems would just kind of wash that away.\\u201d
\\nThe move worked, because now, almost ten years later, he\'s returned with a new album, titled Ayagnera [The Beginning], a collection of rap, R&B, and dance songs, all sung in Yugtun, the Indigenous language he grew up speaking.
\\n\\u201cI came up with the title Ayagnera [The Beginning] because I felt like it was the start of Yup\\u2019ik modern music," he told Rolling Stone India. "There\\u2019s currently no other Yup\\u2019ik music that is released like this other than what I\\u2019ve put out.\\u201d\\xa0
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