founded in 1989 in Flagstaff, Arizona

Blackfire was founded in 1989 in Flagstaff, Arizona by siblings Jeneda, Klee, and Clayson Benally. Their mother was a folk singer-songwriter of Russian – Polish Jewish descent, while their father, Jones Benally, was a traditional Navajo medicine man . The siblings have been playing music since “their instruments were bigger than they were.” Jones and his children perform as the Jones Benally Family.”