Frank Waln or Oyate Teca Obmani is a Sicangu Lakota rapper and activist. His first solo album, Born Ready, was released in 2017, followed by The Bridge the same year. He has been awarded three Native American Music Awards and received five nominations, both individually and with his group Nake Nula Waun. Many of Waln's songs tackle Native American social issues. Waln grew up on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota and first began listening to hip hop as a teenager. He later graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a B.A. in Audio Arts and Acoustics, and also received a Gates Millennium Scholarship. Source: the artist's YouTube channel
