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Grammy award Apache/Hispanic musician, born in New Mexico, in 1949, was sent to St.Vincent's orphanage in Denver, Colorado in 1952. When he was 14, he learned music and art and then was sent to farms to work. He finished high school and hitchhiked to NYC in 1968. His talent was discovered by well known musicians in Greenwich Village such as Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Buffy St. Marie, Richie Havens and more. As a Vietnam draft dodger, he participated in moratoriums against the war in Washington, DC, in the American Indian Movement, and marched in the Civil Rights movement down south with Pete Seeger and others who worked with Martin Luther King Jr.
In 1977 her went to the School of Visual Arts after presenting paintings at the Metropolitan Art Museum, and helped create American Indian Centers and more.
Mousaa played at Woodstock 99 in front of a half million people with David Amram, world renowned composer/multi-instrumentalist.
May 3, 2009, for Pete's 90th Birthday, and fundraiser for Clearwater Org., Roland was asked by Pete to open at Madison Square Garden a song he wrote with Tom Pacheco, "Indian Prayer" and brought his Native musician friends and leaders from reservations.
Roland is also an inventor and working on a new way to create electricity and is currently recording his own music.
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