Mazatl Galindo, a native Aztec of Mexico City, is an internationally recognized cultural ambassador of Mexico. He is a highly proficient musician, dancer and painter. Mazatl’s diverse artistic creations are inspired in whole, or in part, by the traditions of his ancestors.
His knowledge of the art, architecture, astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, cosmology and ceremony of ancient Americans provides the cultural and spiritual contexts of his paintings, music and dance. He has been an invited guest lecturer at the University of Calgary, Harvard University, Cambraine College in Ontario, the UCLA Departments of Ethnomusicology and Dance, as well as for several syndicated radio programs in the U.S.

Mazatl’s artwork has been exhibited through the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes de Mexico, the William Siegal Contemporary Art Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Kumho Cultural Center in South Korea, the Centro Cultural Kosqo in Cuzco, Peru, the Milagro Gallery in Taos, New Mexico, at the University of Puebla, Mexico to name a few.

Mazatl has devoted his life to the preservation of pre-Columbian music. He has composed original scores for documentaries, films and commercial recordings with his collection of more than 200 original instruments. Mazatl has appeared at the Museum of the American Indian in New York City, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Young Museum in San Francisco, at Stonehenge in England, the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, and Machu Picchu in Peru.

Mazatl has been a voting member of the Recording Academy since 2001 and is an active member of ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. He has performed on and co-composed music for several Grammy Award winning albums and currently resides in Santa Fe New Mexico