The National Indigenous Music Awards 2023 were the 20th annual

National Indigenous Music Awards The National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMA), also known as the NT Indigenous Music Awards from 2004 to 2008, are music awards presented to recognise excellence, innovation and leadership among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musicians in ...

(NIMAs), and took place on 12 August 2023. Nominations were revealed on 12 July 2023.

Performers

Thelma Plum Thelma Amelina Plumbe (born 21 December 1994), known professionally as Thelma Plum, is an Aboriginal Australian singer, songwriter, guitarist and musician from Delungra, New South Wales. Her father is renowned lore-man Paul Winanga-li Gii Spear ...

Budjerah Budjerah Slabb, known mononymously as Budjerah, is an Aboriginal Australian singer-songwriter from Fingal Head, New South Wales. He is a Coodjinburra man from the Bundjalung nation. His debut single "Missing You" was released in October 202 ...

Barkaa Barkaa (born 1995 as Chloe Quayle), styled BARKAA, is an Australian rapper and musician, and is a Malyangapa and Barkindji woman. In September 2020, ''GQ Magazine'' dubbed her "the new matriarch of Australian rap". and in 2020, Triple J listed ...

* Kobie Dee * Dean Brady * Ngulmiya * Fred Leone - "Yirimi Gundir" reference:

Hall of Fame inductee

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 ...

Triple J Unearthed National Indigenous Winner

* Djanaba

Archie Roach Foundation Award

* Wildfire Manwurrk

Awards

The nominations was revealed on 12 July 2023. Winners indicated in boldface, with other nominees in plain. Artist of the Year New Talent of the Year Album of the Year Film Clip of the Year Song of the Year Community Clip of the Year Indigenous Language Award

References

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