The surname Blackwell stayed the same for 7 generations through the women, that kept their maternal line as North Carolina Tuscarora Deer Clan people that mixed with African and Scotch-Irish.
Her mother, Nanice Monk Lund, was a classically trained opera singer who toured with Duke Ellington and his Sacred Concert Series.
[1] Her father, Juan Antonio Crescioni-Collazo, was born in Maunabo, Puerto Rico and his mother Modesto Correa was Jibaro- Taíno and Spanish/Berber.
In 1997 after Pura Fé's Grandmothers passing she moved to North Carolina and worked with several related Native communities teaching youth and building song and dance groups, and worked with a Native woman's society that networked all their Tribal communities in Eastern Carolina and VA. She brought her students from the "Seventh Generation Youth Group" under the "North Carolina Indian Cultural Center" to open for Ulali and later brought the Prospect Tuscarora Long House to perform annually at New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Merle Fest and travel up North to visit their Northern Haudenosaunee kin and communities with Ulali.
In August 2021, the original Ulali came together after 15 years and sang at "Indian Market" in New Mexico on behalf of the Artist, Patrick Collins painting fund raiser and awareness of MMIW.
[citation needed] Pura Fe worked as a waitress at club Max's Kansas City in New York during the Punk Era.
[2] In 1994, she was nominated and performed at the Juno Awards for Best Global Recording, for the album Condor Meets the Eagle by Kanatan Aski with Pura Fé.
After hearing guitarist Kelly Joe Phelps perform, Pura Fé began to play the acoustic lap slide guitar and recorded her second solo album, Follow Your Heart's Desire, released on the Music Maker label.
In 2014, Pura Fé is invited by the French duo Antiquarks (Richard Monségu and Sébastien Tron) for a creation with the festival Les Détours de Babel.
[9] Pura Fé and her cousin Jenn of Ulali went to Standing Rock to put on a concert fund raiser with Winona LaDuke and The Indigo Girls in support of the Water Protectors stopping the Pipeline.