RedCloud is a Los Angeles-based recording artist, freestyle battle rapper, writer, visual artist, and Indigenous rights activist who creates hip hop tracks recognizably influenced by his spiritual and Indigenous heritage. He was born and raised in Los Angeles and resides in Studio City, California.
RedCloud was born Henry Andrade, on November 18, 1978, in Hawthorne, California. He is of Native American and Mexican heritage. He became a confessed believer in Jesus Christ in 1991, while in the eighth grade, and repented of being a gang member.