John Huling Biography
 Since 1983 John Huling has been creating
masterfully crafted instrumental music with Native American flute.
Pan Flute and nature as well as other instruments under the Novox Music label.
John Huling's Native American flute music is always original,
innovative and beautifully inspiring. Never a copy. Some of the best selling albums
ever are from his Musical Visions of the Southwest Series. They
include Spiritlands, Ancient Canyons,
originally titled Return to
Spiritlands, Mesa Sunrise, Canyon Spirit, Ancestral
Waters, Under Desert Skies and numerous others. Huling's music has remained in the top ten bestsellers list for more than 20 years!
John Huling received his nearly 50 years of musical background from the early age of 4 years old. Starting
with percussion, Native
American flute and guitar. Huling's formal education
ranges from Psychology, History, Oceanography, and Pre-medical
academics to 16 years as a successful commercial photographer.
Huling's photographic work has been published in the Smithsonian
Archives for Historic Preservation, Architectural Digest,
Harpers Bazaar, Architectural Record, Smithsonian and numerous
other publications.
John Huling has
lived in and around Indian reservations for most of his life.
Having traced his family heritage back for nearly 400 years in
North America Huling's background includes a mix of English, French, Iroquois,
Narragansett, Mohawk, Scotch, Welsh and German. John Huling 's daughter is a mix of Blackfoot and Cherokee Native American Indian.
John Huling
performs numerous concerts nationwide with close friend Alph
Secakaku pictured below, who is world famous in his own right.
Alph is from the Hopi
Indian tribe of northern Arizona. Watch New Native Flute Music Video
featuring John Huling
The concerts are always inclusive and respectful of all and begin with opening "Hopi
styled" song. John believes as does his friend Alph Secakaku (pictured at left)
that we are all more similar to each other and that race has
little to do with individual character. "We prefer to let the
music speak for itself and bring people together in spirit."
says Huling.
"Having had
close friends like photographer Ansel Adams (pictured below left) really helped my photography but it was Ansel who got me interested in music again!" exclaims Huling. "Ansel and I did more piano playing
together than taking pictures. I really learned a lot from him
about composition, especially as applied to music." Heralded as
being one of the originators of the 'Native
American influenced' sound since the mid 80's, the multi-instrumentalist John Huling uses self-recorded
nature sounds and plays a variety of acoustic instruments
including piano, pan flutes, 'alternately tuned' guitars
(learned from his friend Will Ackerman), a plethora of exotic drums and of
course his emotionally expressive Native
American flutes. 
Television
networks such as ABC, BBC, CBS, NBC, PBS, The Learning Channel,
Discovery Channel, the Olympics and The Travel Channel all have
used
Huling's music with many of their documentaries concerning the
environment as well as Native
American subjects.
Long before Native
American flute music became popular, John Huling was following his heart and
crafting his musical compositions. With a melodic blend of his ancient wooden flutes, contemporary and world instruments and nature recordings
Huling weaves a tapestry of truly heart felt, melodic and inspired... always original
music. John Huling 's music is one of the most copied and
emulated styles of music in it's genre today.
A professional
full time Artist, Composer and Producer since 1983 John Huling's music
has received worldwide accolades. Huling's music is heard and sold in
countries worldwide including the United States, Australia,
Canada, China, England, Germany, Holland, South America, Japan
and dozens of other countries too numerous to list. John Huling
has sold more than 1.5 million albums (equivalent to 3 Gold
Records) and been heard by more than 100 million
people worldwide. |