Northern Dial Artist Profile

tecun b'alam

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Tecun B'alam is a Calgary-based Kaq'chikel hip-hop and R&B artist whose work connects Indigenous solidarity, political performance and contemporary rap. Identifying himself as the Mayan man on Treaty 7 land, he has built a catalogue including A Better Version Of Me, 4myBB and Red Music Vol.1; three tracks from Red Music Vol.1 appear in the Northern Dial library.