Maikan, Maikaniss T. Vollant-Niquay, is a self-taught guitarist inspired by blues, soul, soft-rock, and alternative styles. Born to an Innu mother and an Atikamekw father, he grew up between the two communities of Uashat and Manawan, connected between the seaside and the forest, he is surrounded by two musically inclined families. Revealed for the first time during a music competition in Mistassini, where he met a number of artists, Gilbert Pietacho gave him his first chance on stage by offering him to join the group Innutin as a guitarist. His talent was quickly recognized and Maikaniss accompanied several groups on tour (Dan-Georges Mckenzie, Innutin, Bozo St-Onge, Bryan André, Claude Mckenzie and many others). Maikaniss decides to dedicate himself to music, to use art as a vector of communication and change. Through his songs, he hopes to promote today's Indigenous Peoples, who are alive and strong, and to preserve their cultures and languages. Above all, it transmits all of this in a positive message, focused on the hope of a future where the history of Indigenous People will no longer be transmitted in clichés. His first song What Could We Change, recorded with the Musique Nomade team on a stopover in Pessamit, is a blues work with jazz, soft rock and alternative roots.
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