Steven Alvarez is a Mescalero Apache and Yaqui vocalist, percussionist, film and stage producer. Alvarez was raised in a multi-ethnic military family and grew up in and around many diverse cultures having been raised on all three coasts of the continental U.S., Hawaii and Okinawa. He is an artist with hands in many mediums working professionally with symphony orchestras, opera and musical theatre companies and cultural organizations. He produced and executive produced twelve cultural documentary films for the Alaska Native Heritage Center which have been screened internationally at film festivals and broadcast nationally on the American Public Broadcasting System (PBS).