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A quiet and private tropical haven for professional and aspiring musicians, — Kokopelli SoundStudios provides a perfect setting for music development and production with a full range of recording and production facilities. Kokopelli SoundStudios offers a variety of recording formats including ProTools HD, Modular Multitrack, and Vintage Analogue. This sprawling ranch-style property is located on 5 acres of secluded natural wooded area in Southwest Miami-Dade County. Surrounded by a natural preserve, exotic fruit trees, colorful flowering plants, with a private pool and patio Kokopelli SoundStudios provides the artist an ideal atmosphere for creative focus.

ko · ko ·pel · li (kō kō pel’ lē) n. {der. from Hopi “Kokopilau” (koko –wood, pilau – hump)} the Humpbacked Flute Player, Hopi symbol for fertility.

Kokopelli, the mysterious Humpbacked Flute Player, has been a sacred figure to Native Americans of the Southwestern United States for thousands of years. Found painted and carved on rock walls and boulders throughout this region, Kokopelli is one of the most intriguing and widespread images to have survived from ancient Anasazi Indian mythology, and is a prominent figure in Hopi and Zuni legends.

Kokopelli is considered a symbol of fertility that brought well-being to the people, assuring success in hunting, planting and growing crops, and human conception. His “hump” was often considered a bag of gifts, a sack carrying the seeds of plants and flowers he would scatter every spring. Warming the earth by playing his flute and singing songs, Kokopelli would melt he winter snow and create rain, ensuring a good harvest. Kokopelli most often displayed a long phallus, symbolizing the fertile seeds of human reproduction.

Kokopelli’s whimsical nature, charitable deeds, and vital spirit give him a prominent position in Southwestern Indian mysticism as well as universal appeal.