BIOGRAPHY: Just weeks after the release of their critically acclaimed debut album "CRY", COALITION was being heard on some of the biggest radio stations in Native America. From KTNN and KUYI in Navajo and Hopi country, to KNBA in Anchorage, Alaska COALITION has been featured in spotlight shows such as Native America Calling, Earthsongs, Native Tunes, Seminole Country Today, the Singing Wire Show, Native Nights and Native Vibes. Band members Duwayne Begay (guitar), Elton Sloan (bass), Alex Begay (drums) and Tony Rosales (guitar, vocals) wrote and recorded their music in Shack's Studio in their hometown of Tuba City, Arizona. Each member of COALITION brings to the group different musical influences which range from metal to blues and from country to jazz for a sound that is truly unique and authentic. They play with an honesty that reaches into the soul of the listener as if to say this is who we are and where we've been. Their aggressive vocals, insightful lyrics and sizzling guitar riffs create music that is an expressive portrayal of life, love and hard times as experienced by ordinary people in blue collar America. ----- REVIEWS: "Hot licks, stirring vocals and strong songwriting, this Tuba City quartet has it all! Tony Rosales (vocals, guitar), Duwayne Begay (guitar), Alex Begay (drums) and Elton Sloan (bass) mesh their diverse musical influences (everything from jazz and country to heavy metal and blues) to create a contemporary sound that is truly their own! Whether its power chording their way through cuts like One More Day or touching a chord in each of us with Promise the lyrics are expressive and the music is solid! Rosales' vocals are gritty and soulful, well suited to the band's eleven original compositions. Notable cuts include Heartbreaker, the aforementioned Promise and, the title cut Cry. Not since Indigenous' first release has a group's first CD created such a stir in Indian Country! Coalition's Cry is 'tear'-ific" Greg Bates, Whispering Wind Magazine, Audio Review: CRY "The four young men in Coalition -- Duwayne Begay, guitar; Elton Sloan, bass; Alex Begay, drums; and Tony Rosales, guitar -- wrote and recorded this album in a small studio behind the Begay house, literally a shack, which makes it all the more amazing. They've captured the essence of every great blues, rock and pop song you've heard in the last 20 years and distilled it down into a sound that's all their own. There isn't a single weak tune in the set, and most sound both instantly familiar and brand new at the same time, the mark of a great band working with a great songwriter. They have a winning combination of acoustic and electric guitars, with Duwayne Begay reeling off killer hook after killer hook with seeming ease; a solid rhythm section; inventive, tension filled arrangements that lead to anthem-like choruses; and the emotive singing of main songwriter Tony Rosales. Coalition is currently working on their second album, and if it's half as good as this debut they should have a long, glorious career ahead of them." J. Poet, Native People's Magazine, Coalition: CRY