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Deadly Awards 1997
Winners of the Deadly Awards 1997.The awards were an annual celebration of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievement in music, sport, entertainment and community. Music *Outstanding Contribution to Aboriginal Music: Jimmy Little *Most Promising New Talent: Aim 4 More *Male Artist of the Year: Archie Roach *Female Artist of the Year: Maroochy Barambah *Single Release of the Year: Ignorance Is Bliss, Tiddas *Album Release of the Year: '' True Believer'', Troy Cassar-Daley *Band of the Year: Yothu Yindi Yothu Yindi ( Yolngu for "child and mother", pronounced ) are an Australian musical group with Aboriginal and '' balanda'' (non-Aboriginal) members, formed in 1986 as a merger of two bands formed in 1985 – a white rock group called the Swam ... Arts *Excellence in Film or Theatrical ScoreFishby David Page Community *Aboriginal Broadcaster of the Year: Tiga Bayles, Radio 4AAA External links *1997 winners at The Deadlys {{TheDeadlys The Deadly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadly Awards
The Deadly Awards, commonly known simply as The Deadlys, was an annual celebration of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievement in music, sport, entertainment and community. The event was held from 1995 to 2013. Description The Deadlys were an annual celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievement in music, sport, entertainment and community. The word " deadly" is a modern colloquialism used by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to indicate "great or wonderful". History The first Deadlys were held in 1995, at the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-op in the Redfern suburb of Sydney. They stemmed from Boomalli's 1993 ''Deadly Sounds'' music and culture radio show, and were driven by Gavin Jones. Over the next few years, their venue shifted through The Metro Theatre, the Hard Rock Café, Home in Darling Harbour, Fox Studios and others. Then 2001 began The Deadlys residency at the Sydney Opera House, from where the annual gala was broadcas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Little
James Oswald Little, AO (1 March 19372 April 2012) was an Australian Aboriginal musician, actor and teacher, who was a member of the Yorta Yorta tribe and was raised on the Cummeragunja Reserve, New South Wales. Little started his professional career in 1951, as a singer-songwriter and guitarist, which spanned six decades. For many years he was the main Aboriginal star on the Australian music scene. His music was influenced by Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis and American country music artist Jim Reeves. His gospel song "Royal Telephone" (1963) sold over 75,000 copies, and his most popular album, ''Messenger'', peaked at No. 26 in 1999 on the ARIA Albums Chart. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1999, Little was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame and won an ARIA Award for Best Adult Contemporary Album. On Australia Day (26 January) 2004, he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia with the citation, "For service to the entertainment industry as a singer, recording artist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aim 4 More
Aim 4 More (AIM is for Aboriginal and Islander Mob) was an Indigenous Australian band. They released their debut self-titled CD in 1997. They won a Deadly in 1997 for Most Promising New Talent. They were features in the ABC TV show Defining Black.The West Australian, 6 January 2000, "Aboriginal Youth Take The Rap" by Mark Naglazas Discography * ''AIM 4 More'' (1997) - Jamalga Music References {{Authority control Musical groups established in 1993 Musical groups disestablished in 1997 Musical groups from Brisbane Indigenous Australian musical groups ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archie Roach
Archibald William Roach (8 January 1956 – 30 July 2022) was an Australian singer, songwriter and Aboriginal Australian, Aboriginal activist. Often referred to as "Uncle Archie", Roach was a Gunditjmara and Western Bundjalung people, Bundjalung elder who campaigned for the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. His wife and musical partner was the singer Ruby Hunter (1955–2010). Roach first became known for the song "Took the Children Away", which featured on his debut solo album, ''Charcoal Lane'', in 1990. He toured around the globe, headlining and opening shows for Joan Armatrading, Bob Dylan, Billy Bragg, Tracy Chapman, Suzanne Vega and Patti Smith. His work has been recognised by numerous nominations and awards, including a Deadly Award for a "Lifetime Contribution to Healing the Stolen Generations" in 2013. At the 2020 ARIA Music Awards on 25 November 2020, Roach was inducted into their ARIA Hall of Fame, hall of fame. His 2019 memoir and accompanying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maroochy Barambah
Maroochy Barambah is an Australian Aboriginal mezzo-soprano singer. She is a song-woman, law-woman and elder of the Turrbal people. Early life She was born Yvette Isaacs in the 1950s in Cherbourg, Queensland. She is of the Turrbal-Gubbi Gubbi people and is a member of the Stolen Generations. She considers herself a beneficiary of her removal. As a tribute to her Aboriginality she took the names Maroochy (meaning "black swan") and Barambah (meaning "source of the western wind"). Career Maroochy Barambah rose to fame for her part in the 1989 Sydney Metropolitan Opera production of ''Black River'', by Julianne Schultz and Andrew Schultz, an opera about black deaths in custody, and later starring in the 1993 film adaption which was awarded the Grand-Prix, Opera Screen at Opera Bastille, Paris. She also has appeared in the indigenous musical ''Bran Nue Dae'', the 1981 television series ''Women of the Sun'' and in the opera '' Beach Dreaming'' (written for and about her by Mark Isaac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignorance Is Bliss (Tiddas Song)
"Ignorance Is Bliss" is a song recorded by Australian folk band Tiddas. The song was released in July 1996 as the lead single from the band's second studio album, '' Tiddas''. The song peaked at number 97 on the ARIA Charts. The song is inspired by an argument with Bob Geldof while touring in 1993. At the Deadly Awards 1997, the song won Single Release of the Year. Background and release In 2013, Lou Bennett told the story of the song to Deadly Magazine. She recalls Tiddas were performing with American group Sweet Honey in the Rock Sweet Honey in the Rock is an all-woman, African-American a cappella ensemble. They are an American three-time Grammy Award–nominated troupe who express their history as black women through song, dance, and sign language. Originally a four-p ... and Bob Geldof in 1993. Bennett said she remembers the tour well and said Gelfod ‘baited’ the girls into thinking about why they were singing and what they were singing about. “He wanted us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiddas (band)
Tiddas were an all-female Folk music, folk trio from Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. Biography 1990–1992: Career beginnings and ''Inside My Kitchen'' Originally the three women, Amy Saunders (a Gunditjmara woman from Portland), Lou Bennett (a Yorta Yorta Dja Dja Wurrung woman from Echuca) and Sally Dastey (from West Heidelberg) combined their vocal talents as backing singers for Aboriginal band Djaambi, led by Saunders' brother Richard Frankland in 1990. The group were invited to perform at a musical celebration for women's artistic achievement, 'Hot Jam Cooking', in Richmond, Victoria. Their performance was well received and inspired Ruby Hunter to dub the trio Tiddas, which is Koori for the "sisters". After performing together for over a year the band came to the attention of Paul Petran, host of ABC National Radio show 'Music Deli', who assisted Tiddas to record their debut Extended play, EP, ''Inside My Kitchen'' in 1991. ''Inside My Kitchen'' was released in O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
True Believer (Troy Cassar-Daley Album)
''True Believer'' is the second studio album by Australian country music artist Troy Cassar-Daley. The album was released in January 1997 and peaked at number 53 on the ARIA Charts. The album came with a 4-track limited edition second disc titled the Tamworth Festival Edition. At the 1998 Country Music Awards in Tamworth, Cassar-Daley won three Gold Guitars – Best Male Vocal and Best Video for his single "Little Things" while the album won Album of the Year. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1998, the album was nominate for ARIA Award for Best Country Album The ARIA Music Award for Best Country Album, is an award presented at the annual ARIA Music Awards, which recognises "the many achievements of Aussie artists across all music genres", since 1987. It is handed out by the Australian Recording Indust .... Track listing Charts Certifications Release history References 1997 albums Troy Cassar-Daley albums {{1990s-country-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Troy Cassar-Daley
Troy Cassar-Daley (born 18 May 1969) is an Australian country music songwriter and entertainer. Cassar-Daley has released thirteen studio albums, two live albums and five compilation albums over 30 years, including the platinum-selling ''The Great Country Songbook'' with Adam Harvey. Throughout this time he has received awards including five ARIA Music Awards, forty Golden Guitars, nine Deadly Awards (Australian Indigenous Artist Awards), four Country Music Association of Australia Entertainer of the Year awards and two National Indigenous Music Awards. Early life and career Cassar-Daley was born on 18 May 1969 in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills to a Maltese-Australian father and an Aboriginal mother from the Gumbaynggirr and Bundjalung people. At a very young age, he moved with his mother to Grafton in north-eastern New South Wales. At eleven, Troy went to the Tamworth Country Music Festival and returned the next year to busk on the streets. At 16, he and his band, Little E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yothu Yindi
Yothu Yindi (Yolŋu Matha, Yolngu for "child and mother", pronounced ) are an Australian musical group with Australian Aboriginal, Aboriginal and ''List of English words of Malay origin#B, balanda'' (non-Aboriginal) members, formed in 1986 as a merger of two bands formed in 1985 – a white rock group called the Swamp Jockeys and an unnamed Aboriginal folk group. The Aboriginal members came from Yolngu, Yolngu homelands near Yirrkala, Northern Territory, Yirrkala on the Gove Peninsula in Northern Territory's Arnhem Land. Founding members included Stuart Kellaway on bass guitar, Cal Williams on lead guitar, Andrew Belletty (drums), Witiyana Marika on ''manikay'' (traditional vocals), ''bilma'' (ironwood clapsticks) and dance, Milkayngu Mununggurr on ''yidaki'' (didgeridoo), Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu on keyboard (music), keyboards, guitar and percussion, past lead singer Mandawuy Yunupingu and present Yirrnga Yunupingu on vocals and guitar. The band combines aspects of both mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Page (musician)
Roy David Page (1961 – 28 April 2016), known as Dubboo to his close friends, was an Australian composer (he preferred the term "songman") who was the music director of the Bangarra Dance Theatre. He was descended from the Nunukul people and the Munaldjali clan of the Yugambeh people of south-east Queensland, and brother of choreographer Stephen Page and dancer Russell Page. He was also an actor, singer and drag artist. Early life and education Page was born in Brisbane, the eighth of twelve children, and grew up in Mount Gravatt. His father was Aboriginal/Chinese and his mother was of Maori, Spanish, Irish and Aboriginal heritage. Page embarked on a singing career as a teenager under the name "Little Davey Page", and was the first Australian to be signed to Atlantic Records. He released a cover of the Neil Sedaka song ''Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen'' in 1975, and appeared on TV shows including ''Countdown'' and ''The Paul Hogan Show''. Page studied saxophone, voice and com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiga Bayles
Harold James Phillip "Tiga" Bayles (6 October 1953 – 17 April 2016) was an Australian radio presenter and indigenous rights activist. Bayles was raised in Theodore, Queensland, and was the son of Maureen Watson. With his mother, Bayles established ''Radio Redfern'', an indigenous radio program on Sydney community station Radio Skid Row. In 1982, he was involved with the Aboriginal movement protests around the 1982 Commonwealth Games The 1982 Commonwealth Games were held in Brisbane, Australia, from 30 September to 9 October 1982. The Opening Ceremony was held at the QEII Stadium (named after Elizabeth II), in the Brisbane suburb of Nathan. The QEII Stadium was also the a .... In 1988, he was Chairman of the NSW Aboriginal Land Council and a key organiser of the Aboriginal Bicentennial protests in Sydney. Moving back to Brisbane, Bayles helped establish the Brisbane Indigenous Media Association (BIMA) which operated the radio station 98.9 FM (Brisbane), with the guidanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
