Samantha Crain

Samantha Crain is a Choctaw songwriter, musician, producer, and singer from Oklahoma, signed with Real Kind Records. Crain is the winner of 3 NAMMYs (Native American Music Awards) and an Indigenous Music Award. She has had songs featured on 90210, HBO's Hung, Reservation Dogs, Resident Alien, and in many independent documentaries and films, including The Dark Divide, Barking Water, and UNRESERVED: The Work of Louie Gong. She also composed the musical score for the award winning film, Fancy Dance. Her genre spanning discography has been critically acclaimed by media outlets such as Rolling Stone, SPIN, BBC 6 Music, Paste, No Depression, NPR, PRI, The Guardian, NME, Uncut, and others. She has toured extensively over the past 15 years nationally and internationally, presenting ambitious orchestrated shows with a band and intimate folk leaning solo performances. She has toured with First Aid Kit, Neutral Milk Hotel, Lucy Rose, The Avett Brothers, Murder By Death, Watchhouse, The Mountain Goats, Brandi Carlile, Anais Mitchell, Langhorne Slim and many other bands and artists.