Real name: Elisabeth Waldo Dentzel

Effective period / Period of releases: 1959 - 1994

American violinist, composer, songwriter, conductor and ethnomusicologist. A scholar of pre-Colombian era music, she was an early adopter of Native American musical instruments among those trained in European classical music. Her melding of ancient and contemporary styles of American music ranks Waldo among the pioneers in the genre now known as Exotica.
She was born June 18, 1918 in Tacoma, Washington.