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", the nomination was revised to reflect her album "Red Sky Rising" after she was accused of cultural appropriation by George's family. Nash was born 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, she was given her own half-hour CBC Television special as part of the variety series "Points East, Points West" in 1976. She released her debut album, "Natural Born", in 1978. She later moved to Vancouver. Initially a member of the short-lived dance pop band Touché, she later released a second album and several singles as a solo artist. She participated in the 1986 charity single "Actions Speak Louder Than Words", 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. Her relationship with the George family was strained in the early 1990s when she changed her name to Sazacha Red Sky, and began to state in promotional materials that she was George's adopted daughter. George's son Leonard disputed the claim of adoption, noting that he had never met Nash until long after his father's death, and insisted that she did not have the right to record "The Prayer Song". Under conventional copyright law, as long as the song is properly credited and the appropriate royalties are paid a singer does not need permission to record a cover version of another musician's song — however, "The Prayer Song" is considered a sacred song to the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation, and according to Leonard George it could not be performed or recorded by a musician who is not a member of the First Nation unless it was explicitly given to that musician as a gift by Dan George or his surviving heirs. Nash had participated as a guest musician in public performances of the song by the George family, but according to Leonard George she had not been given their approval to record her own version without their participation.