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List Of Indigenous Australian Musicians
This is a list of Indigenous Australian musicians. Solo artists *Trevor Adamson – country/gospel singer *Baker Boy, Danzal Baker (Baker Boy) – rapper *Barkaa – rapper *Auriel Andrew – country musician *Christine Anu – singer-songwriter, actress, producer, and speaker *David Arden – singer and guitarist *George Assang – singer and actor *Mark Atkins (musician), Mark Atkins – didgeridoo player *Maroochy Barambah – mezzo-soprano *Black Allan Barker – country/blues singer *William Barton (musician), William Barton – didgeridoo player *Lou Bennett (musician), Lou Bennett – musician and actor *Birdz (rapper), Birdz – rapper and singer-songwriter *Harold Blair – tenor *David Blanasi – didgeridoo player *Briggs (rapper), Briggs – hip-hop performer *Brothablack – hip-hop performer *Burragubba – didgeridoo player *Sammy Butcher (musician), Sammy Butcher – guitarist *Kev Carmody – singer-songwriter *Bernard Carney – musician *Troy Cassar-Daley – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Adamson
Trevor Adamson is an Australian country/gospel singer best known for his song ''Nyanpi Matilda'', a Pitjantjatjara people, Pitjantjatjara version of Waltzing Matilda. He is from Pukatja, South Australia and sings in both Pitjantjatjara and English. He was the subject of an episode of an ABC TV series, ''Six Australians''. Trevor Adamson also featured in episode #1008 of the NITV show "Pmarra Country", an Aboriginal tribute to the legendary Slim Dusty, in which Mr. Adamson performed his Pitjantjatjara language version of Slim Dusty's 1972 song "When the Rain Tumbles Down in July". Discography *''Godaku Walytja-Piti'' (Gods Family) (1982) with the Enabella children *''Trust in the Lord'' (1985) - CAAMA, Imparja *''Where I Belong'' (1989) - CAAMA *''Waltzing Matilda'' (1994) - CAAMA *''My Sunburnt Country'' (2009) - Pindaroo References Indigenous Australian musicians Australian male singers Australian male songwriters Australian guitarists Living people Musicians from So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brothablack
Shannon Narrun Williams, known as Brothablack, is a Sydney-based Indigenous hip hop performer. Brothablack was a founding member of Deadly Award-winning group South West Syndicate. He has since gone solo and has worked as an MC for The National Indigenous 3on3 Basketball and Hip Hop Challenge, performed at the Big Day Out, and released a solo album ''More Than A Feeling'', an album which is trying to give "non-Indigenous people a good look into an Indigenous males life". In 2007 he teamed up with Hilltop Hoods to create a song for a campaign by reconcile.org.au highlighting Indigenous mortality rates. He has received extensive airplay on Triple J Triple J is an Australian government-funded national radio station founded in 1975 as a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). It aims to appeal to young listeners of alternative music, and plays far more Australian conten ... including performing a set for Live at the Wireless, broadcast on 9 July 2007.Trip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Dargin
Alan Dargin (13 July 196724 February 2008) was an indigenous Australian musician and songwriter known for being a didgeridoo player. He grew up in Wee Waa and started learning the instrument at age five from his grandfather and other Wiradjuri elders. His signature instrument was over a hundred years old and was made from a blood wood eucalypt. He received his secondary education at St Pius X High School, Newcastle. Dargin worked as a busker on the streets of Sydney. He appeared with various symphony orchestras, including the Vienna Philharmonic and the London Symphony Orchestra at Royal Albert Hall; as well as in the United States, Japan, and Europe. In 1983 Dargin appeared in a five-part ABC-TV miniseries, ''Chase Through the Night'', alongside Nicole Kidman. He had the role of Bruce in the feature film, '' The Fringe Dwellers'' (1986), and a cameo appearance in '' The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert'' (1994), as an unnamed cross-dresser. On Bastille Day in 1994 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ash Dargan
Ash Dargan is an indigenous Australian didgeridoo player. He is a member of the Larrakia people but did not find out about his aboriginality until he was 21.The West Australian, 22 June 2000, "Competition" by Ara Jansen He teaches and performs all over the world. He is a former member of Coloured Stone, appearing on their 1999 album ''Rhythm of Nature''. Discography *''Earth Rhythms'' (1998) Indigenous Australia *''Wirrimbah'' (1998) Indigenous Australia *''Trancescapes'' (1998) Indigenous Australia *''Aphrodidjiac'' (1998) Indigenous Australia *''Tribal Offerings'' (1998) Indigenous Australia *''Ancient Spirit'' (1999) Indigenous Australia *''Echoes of Ancient Didjeridu'' (1999) Indigenous Australia *''Sun Always Dances'' (1999) Indigenous Australia *''Woomera'' (1999) Indigenous Australia *''Breath of Man'' (2000) Indigenous Australia *''Ash Dust & Dirt'' (2000) Indigenous Australia *''Demurru meditation'' (2000) Indigenous Australia *''Pharaoh's Dreamtime'' (2001) Indigenous A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seaman Dan
Henry Gibson Dan (25 August 1929 – 30 December 2020), known as Seaman Dan, was a Torres Strait Islander singer-songwriter with a national and international reputation. His first recording, an album called ''Follow the Sun'', was released in 2000, on his 70th birthday. Early life Seaman Dan was born on 25 August 1929 in the general hospital on Thursday Island in the Torres Strait Islands Region of Far North Queensland, Australia. His great-grandfather was a sailor from Jamaica in the West Indies, and his great-grandmother a chief's daughter from New Caledonia. Another grandfather came from the island of Niue in Polynesia. "Seaman" In the late 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, Dan worked as a boat captain and pearl diver, gathering pearl and trochus shells across the north of Australia. He also did jobs such as mineral prospecting and taxi driving. Music career Dan's singing came from family, friends and associating with talented musicians in his multi-cultural maritime working life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miiesha
Miiesha Elizabeth Rose Young, known mononymously as Miiesha, is an Australian singer-songwriter from the Aboriginal community of Woorabinda, Queensland. She was the recipient of New Talent of the Year at the 2020 National Indigenous Music Awards and won the ARIA Award for Best Soul/R&B Release at the 2020 ARIA Music Awards. Early life and education Miiesha Elizabeth Rose Young is an Aṉangu/Torres Strait Islander woman from Woorabinda in Queensland. Career Miiesha is inspired by the sounds of RnB, gospel and soul, and the power of spoken word poetry. Mieesha's career was launched after performing as one of the Kulgoodah dancers, who won the Dance Rites competition in Sydney in 2017. The competition had founded by head of Indigenous programming at the Sydney Opera House Rhoda Roberts a few years prior. 2019–2020: ''Nyaaringu'' Miiesha made her debut single "Black Privilege" in June 2019. In May 2020, Miiesha released her debut album titled, '' Nyaaringu''; a project of 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marlene Cummins
Marlene Cummins is a jazz blues singer, saxophonist, songwriter, artist, Aboriginal Australian activist, broadcaster, dancer, and actor. Many activists consider her to be Australia's Angela Davis. Music Cummins is considered Australia's foremost Indigenous blues performer, and is influenced by Big Mama Thornton, Etta James, and Ray Charles. She honed her skills at the Berklee College of Music. Her band includes Murray Cook and Rex Goh. She showcases her vast knowledge of blues and roots music on Koori Radio, where she hosts ''Marloo's Blues'', providing music and discussions from an indigenous perspective. This show won her the Broadcaster of the Year award at the 2009 Deadly Awards. Marlene co-wrote her first release "Whichway Up" with writer & performer Isaiah B Brunt, the EP was recorded and produced by Tony Buchen and released in 2008. "Whichway Up" made the top 10 Australian Blues Radio Charts and was picked up by Qantas where it aired on high rotation. Cummins wrote a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Corowa
Marcus Corowa is an Indigenous Australian singer/songwriter from Bowen, Queensland Bowen is a coastal town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Bowen had a population of 11,205 people. The locality contains two other towns: * Heronvale, Quee .... Now based in Sydney, Corowa performs a mix of blues, soul and jazz Corowa won a Deadly in 2012 for Most Promising New Talent in Music. On 15 September, 2019 Marcus joined the cast of puppetry show Song for the Mardoowarra during its season at the World Festival of Puppet Theatres in Charleville Mezieres, France. Discography * ''The Greater You'' References External links Marcus Corowa {{DEFAULTSORT:Corowa, Marcus Indigenous Australian musicians Australian male singers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Bowen, Queensland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Chi
James Ronald Chi (1948 – 26 June 2017) was an Australian composer, musician and playwright. His best known work is the 1990 musical ''Bran Nue Dae'', which was adapted for film in 2009. Early life and education James Ronald Chi was born in Broome, Western Australia in 1948 to a father of Chinese and Japanese descent and a mother of Scottish and Aboriginal ( Bardi and Nyulnyul) descent. Chi attended a Catholic school in Perth, and went on to university in WA. However, he was involved in a serious car accident, and, after coming out of a three-week coma, developed bipolar affective disorder. He became severely depressed, but was helped by his faith. After returning to Broome in 1970, he bought a guitar and started writing songs, initially on his own. Stephen Pigram and Michael Manolis joined him in songwriting, and in the early 1980s the three of them, along with Garry Gower and Patrick Bin Amat moved to Adelaide, South Australia, to study music at the Centre for Aborigi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Cheetham
Deborah Joy Cheetham Fraillon (born Deborah Joy Cheetham, 1964) is an Aboriginal Australian soprano, composer, and playwright. She leads Short Black Opera, based in Melbourne, which provides training and opportunities for emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musical artists. In February 2023, she was appointed inaugural Elizabeth Todd Chair of Vocal Studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Early life and education Deborah Joy Cheetham was born in 1964 in Nowra, New South Wales. She is a member of the Stolen Generations, being taken from her mother when she was three weeks old and was raised by a white Baptist family. The musician Jimmy Little was her uncle. She attended Penshurst Girls High School (now Georges River College (Penshurst Girls Campus). Cheetham graduated from the NSW Conservatorium of Music with a Bachelor of Music Education Degree. Writing and performing career In 1997, Cheetham wrote the autobiographical play, ''White Baptist Abba Fan'', w ... [...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-five 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 b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Carney
Bernard James Carney is an Australian musician, who has worked in music since 1974. He is a songwriter, community choir director and guitar teacher. He has made nine albums, including "West", "Feathers and tributes", and "No time like the future". Carney was the main guest at the "Top Half Festival" near Alice Springs in June 2007 and he has regularly played at the Fairbridge Festival. He was the face of the Perth White Pages for 2010. Carney has received four Australian song writing awards. He has played at Australia's major acoustic music festivals, including the Woodford Folk Festival in Queensland (for 10 consecutive years), The Port Fairy Folk Festival in Victoria (named Artist of the Year in 2003), and the National Folk Festival in Canberra. He has regularly toured internationally, and has done international support concert work with Foster and Allen, Gene Pitney, Taj Mahal, Ralph McTell, and Stephane Grapelli. Carney is frequently commissioned to write songs for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
