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Deadly Awards 2001
The Deadlys 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: Gus Williams *Outstanding Contribution to Aboriginal Music: Vic Simms *Band of the Year: Letterstick Band *Most Promising New Talent: J Boy *Country Artist of the Year: Troy Cassar-Daley *Male Artist of the Year: Kutcha Edwards *Female Artist of the Year: Kerrianne Cox *Album Release of the Year: Warren H Williams Where My Heart Is *Single Release: Stiff Gins Morning Star *Excellence in Film or Theatrical Score: Mark Ovenden & Yothu Yindi for Yolngu Boy ''Yolngu Boy'' is a 2001 Australian coming-of-age film directed by Stephen Maxwell Johnson, produced by Patricia Edgar, Gordon Glenn, Galarrwuy Yunupingu and Mandawuy Yunupingu, and starring Sean Mununggurr, John Sebastian Pilakui, and Nathan ... Community *Aboriginal Broadcaster of The Year: 2CUZ FM References { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Deadlys
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 "Australian Aboriginal English#Deadly, 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 Artist Co-op, Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-op in the Redfern, New South Wales, Redfern suburb of Sydney. They stemmed from Boomalli's 1993 ''Deadly Sounds'' music and culture radio show, and were driven by Gavin Jones (media executive), Gavin Jones. Over the next few years, their venue shifted through The Metro Theatre, the Hard Rock Café, Home (Nightclub Chain), Home in Darling Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gus Williams (musician)
Kasper Gus Ntjalka Williams (20 June 1937 – 13 September 2010), known as Gus Williams, was an Aboriginal Australian country music singer who lived in Central Australia. He was known not only for his work in Aboriginal country music, but also as a leader of his people. He created the first electric country band in the Northern Territory, the Warrabri Country Bluegrass Band. Biography Kasper Gus Ntjalka Williams was born in Labrapuntja on 20 June 1937 in Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory of Australia, one of 11 children. He was an Arrernte people, Arrernte man.Hermannsburg (2) 1958 - 1959 The family moved to the Alice Springs Telegraph Station in 1945, where his mother took up a post as a house governess. Gus did a variety of work in Alice, and also began playing Australian rules football. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vic Simms
William Victor Simms, known as Vic Simms and Vicki Simms, is an Australian singer and songwriter. He is from La Perouse, New South Wales, and is a Bidjigal man.''Message Stick'' "Once in a Lifetime" the story of Vic Simms 
Career Simms began his singing career at age 12 at the Manly Jazzorama Music Festival in 1957,Deadly VibeVic Simms soon after heard h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Letterstick Band
Letterstick Band are a band from north-east Arnhem Land in Australia. The members are from the An-Barra Clan on the coast near Maningrida. They are named after the wooden tools on which messages are carved to communicate between places. They play a mixture of reggae and rock that has been called saltwater rock and they sing in English and in Arnhem Land languages. Letterstick Band won a Deadly for Band of the Year in 2001. They are the subjects of the documentary ''Diyama - Soundtracks of Maningrida''. Discography * ''An-Barra Clan'' (1998) - CAAMA The Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) is an organisation founded in 1980 to expose Aboriginal music and culture to the rest of Australia. It started with 8KIN-FM, the first Aboriginal radio station in the country. Based in A ... * ''Diyama'' (2003) - CAAMA Diyama ...
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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] |
Kutcha Edwards
Kutcha Edwards is an indigenous Australian singer and songwriter. He was born in Balranald, New South Wales, in 1965. A survivor of the Stolen Generations, he was removed from his parents at the age of 18 months. He is a Mutti Mutti man. He was named Indigenous Person of the Year at the 2001 NAIDOC Awards and won a Deadly for Male Artist of the Year the same year. Edwards also contributed lyrics to a revised version of "Advance Australia Fair"-collabotaing with Judith Durham, and singing the anthem not only with her, but also in a solo version. Edwards' music career began in 1991 as a member of Watbalimba. He later joined the band Blackfire who he was with during the 1990s. Edwards now fronts the Kutcha Edwards Band and is part of The Black Arm Band. He has appeared as a guest on the SBS TV series '' RocKwiz''. He released his third album, ''Blak & Blu'', produced by Craig Pilkington and featuring Jeff Lang as well as guest appearances by Dan Sultan and Rebecca Barnard among o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerrianne Cox
Kerrianne Cox is an Aboriginal singer from Beagle Bay in Western Australia. She has toured widely around Australia and toured USA and South Africa and appeared in the musical Bran Nue Dae in 1996. Cox was nominated in the 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 T ... for Best Emerging Artist (1998) and Best Female Artist (1999, 2000, 2001), winning in 2001. She won a WAMi in 1997 as Best Indigenous Artist of the Year and in 2002 she received another nomination. In 2000 she was NAIDOC's Female Artist of the Year.Centralian Advocate, 14 March 2003, "Songs from the heart" Discography *Just Wanna Move (1999) *Opening (2001) *Return to Country (2006) References External linksKerrianne Cox websiteKerrianne Cox 1999 Interview {{DEFAULTSORT:Cox, Kerrianne Living ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren H Williams
Warren Hedley Williams (born 27 December 1963) is an Aboriginal Australian singer, musician and songwriter from Hermannsburg in Central Australia. As of 2013 he worked as a broadcaster on CAAMA Radio in Alice Springs. Early life Williams was born on 27 December 1963 in Hermannsburg, the son of country musician Gus Williams. He is an Arrernte man. He started playing guitar at the age of six with his father, and later went to school at a Lutheran college in Adelaide: Immanuel College in Novar Gardens. Music career In 2007, he wrote the musical ''Magic Coolamon,'' which debuted as the first ever Central Australian Indigenous musical. Williams toured with John Williamson many times, including "Hillbilly Road" in 2008. In 2015, Williams invited long-time friend and award-winning Australian singer Shane Nicholson to visit his hometown of Hermannsburg (Ntaria) to help break his writer's block. Williams took him to sacred sites and shared Aboriginal Dreaming stories which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stiff Gins
The Stiff Gins are an Indigenous Australian band from Sydney. They call their music "acoustic with harmonies" and are regularly compared to Tiddas. The band was formed by Emma Donovan, Nardi Simpson and Kaleena Briggs in 1999, after meeting at the Eora Centre while studying music. The band's name uses the word ''gin'' (a derogatory word for an Aboriginal woman which was also a Dharug word for woman/wife) with the word ''stiff'' to become strong black woman, a name which caused debate about use of the word ''gin''. The band won Deadlys in 2000 for Most Promising New Talent and in 2001 for their single "Morning Star".Michael Ewans, Rosalind Halton, John A. Phillips ''Music Research: New Directions for a New Century'' 2004 Page 159 "... 2000, the group won a Deadly Awards for Most Promising New Talent, and in 2001, they won the Single Release of the Year award for their song "Morning Star." Discography Albums Extended plays Awards Deadly Awards The Deadly Awards, commonly k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Ovenden (composer)
Mark Ovenden is a composer and musician of Australian Aboriginal descent. In 2001 he won a Deadly for excellence In Film or Theatrical Score for his composing the score for '' Yolngu Boy''.'' The Age'', 16 June 2005, "Settling the score" by Denis Brown References External linksYolngu Boy bio Australian film score composers Male film score composers Indigenous Australian musicians Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-musician-stub ... [...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] |
Yolngu Boy
''Yolngu Boy'' is a 2001 Australian coming-of-age film directed by Stephen Maxwell Johnson, produced by Patricia Edgar, Gordon Glenn, Galarrwuy Yunupingu and Mandawuy Yunupingu, and starring Sean Mununggurr, John Sebastian Pilakui, and Nathan Daniels. ''Yolngu Boy'' is based around three Aboriginal teenage boys linked by ceremony, kinship and a common dream-to become great Yolngu hunters, in a remote community at Yirrkala in North-East Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia.Australian Children's Television Foundation, (1996). ''Australian Children's Television Foundation Annual Report 1995-1996''. A.C.T.F. Productions Limited. The feature film traces the metaphorical journey of the three young Aboriginal teenagers caught in a collision between the modern world and traditional Aboriginal culture where they hunt wild animals in the morning using spears and play football while listening to hip hop rap music in the afternoon. The project involved a significant nu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
