Ronnie Dean Harris

Ronnie Dean Harris, known professionally as Ostwelve, is a multimedia artist of Stō:lo, St’át'imc, and Nlaka'pamux heritage, based in New Westminster, British Columbia. His artistic journey began in his teenage years, and since then, he has taken his original music to audiences around the world. Beyond live performance, Ostwelve has lent his compositional talents to a wide range of television, film, and digital media productions.

While hip-hop forms the core of his creative output, his work defies easy categorization. Ostwelve moves fluidly between genres and time signatures, shifting from the raw intensity of spoken word to beats engineered for the dance floor.

His contributions to screen-based media are equally notable. Ostwelve appeared as both a performer and a lead actor in the APTN/Showcase dramatic series *Moccasin Flats*, a role he carried across two seasons. He also composed music for the show. In 2007, he reprised his involvement in the feature-length follow-up, *Moccasin Flats: Redemption*.

Through music, performance, and composition, Ostwelve continues to build a multifaceted career that bridges Indigenous storytelling with contemporary sound.