[3][4] The band's members are vocalist Kevin "Flying Down Thunder" Chief and DJ Eric "Rise Ashen" Vani.
Chief, an Algonquin member of the Long Point First Nation people from Winneway, Quebec, works as an aboriginal self-government negotiator for the Canadian government department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, while Vani works as a real estate agent.
[2] The two met when Vani heard Chief performing during Ottawa's Winterlude.
[2] Chief and Vani collaborated to create an album which combined urban electronic music with traditional indigenous rhythms and chants, and stories.
[4] Chief has also collaborated on music with Eagle & Hawk, and recorded an album in 2013 with his daughter Amber Asp-Chief under the band name Mazinikijik Singers.