Nancy Nash

Nancy Nash is a Canadian blues and pop singer, who has recorded and performed both under her birth name and as Sazacha Red Sky. Under the latter name, she garnered a Juno Award nomination for Best Music of Aboriginal Canada Recording at the Juno Awards of 1994. Initially nominated for her recording of Chief Dan George's "The Prayer Song",

Early career Nash was born June 17, 1955, and raised in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, and spent her early career working in Edmonton, Alberta. Associated with the blues band Hot Cottage in the 1970s, performed as a backing vocalist for Bon Jovi, Loverboy, Long John Baldry, Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, Big Walter Horton and Cher, and recorded the Expo 86 theme song "Something's Happening Here". She won a West Coast Music Award in 1987 for Best Female Vocalist.

She was a supporter of native rights, becoming a friend and musical collaborator of George's children in this era. and insisted that she did not have the right to record "The Prayer Song". and the final compromise revising her nomination to reflect the album instead of the song was announced on the morning of the ceremony.

Discography Natural Born (1978) Touché (1979, with Touché) Letting Go (1982) Red Sky Rising (1992, as Sazacha Red Sky) Sing It to the Wind (as Sazacha Red Sky) Love Is All That Matters (2004) 4:11 Special (2010) Long Live the Blues (2014, as Nash-MacInnes)