This is a list of Indigenous Australian musicians.

Solo artists

* Trevor Adamson – country/gospel singer * Danzal Baker (Baker Boy) – rapper, singer *

Auriel Andrew Auriel Andrew (1947 – 2 January 2017) was an award-winning Arrernte country musician from the Northern Territory of Australia. Biography Andrew was born in Darwin, and grew up in Mparntwe, Northern Territory. She is Arrernte, the Traditi ...

– country musician *

Christine Anu Christine Anu (born 15 March 1970) is an Australian singer, songwriter and actress. She gained popularity with the cover song release of the Warumpi Band's song " My Island Home". Anu has been nominated for 17 ARIA Awards. Early life Anu was ...

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Torres Strait Islander Torres Strait Islanders () are the Indigenous Melanesian people of the Torres Strait Islands, which are part of the state of Queensland, Australia. Ethnically distinct from the Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal people of the rest of Australia ...

) – singer-songwriter, actress, producer, and speaker * Ronald Dick – Singer-songwriter Musical Theatre Triple Threat *

David Arden David Arden is an Australian guitar player, singer and songwriter. He has performed with Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter, Tiddas, Bart Willoughby, Mixed Relations and with members of Shane Howard, Paul Kelly, Not Drowning Waving and Hunters and C ...

– singer and guitar player * George Assang – singer and actor * Mark Atkins –

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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 p ...

– mezzo-soprano * Black Allan Barker – country/blues singer * William Barton – didgeridoo player * Lou Bennett – musician and actor * Birdz – rapper, songwriter *

Harold Blair Harold Blair (13 September 1924 – 21 May 1976) was an Australian tenor and Aboriginal activist. He has been called the "last great Australian tenor of the concert hall era". Early life Blair was born at the Barambah Aboriginal Reserve a ...

– tenor *

David Blanasi David Blanasi ( – 2001?) was an Aboriginal man of the Mayali language group of west Arnhem Land, who is known for popularising the didgeridoo outside Australia, after appearing on television on the '' Rolf Harris show'' in 1967. He subsequentl ...

– didgeridoo player * Briggs – hip hop performer *

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 Nationa ...

– hip hop performer * Burragubba – didgeridoo player *

Sammy Butcher Sammy Butcher is an Pitjantjatjara– Warlpiri musician who formed the Warumpi Band. Biography Butcher was born at Papunya, Northern Territory in Central Australia. His mother's side is from the south, the Pitjantjatjara tribe and his father's ...

– guitarist, ex Warumpi Band * Kev Carmody – singer-songwriter *

Bernard Carney Bernard James Carney is an all-round Australian musician, who has worked in music since 1974. He is a songwriter, community choir director and guitar teacher, and his songs are peppered with passion and humour. He has made nine successful albums ...

– all-round Australian musician * Troy Cassar-Daley – country musician * Deborah Cheetham – opera singer * Jimmy Chi – composer, musician and playwright *

Marcus Corowa Marcus Corowa is an Indigenous Australian singer/songwriter from Bowen, Queensland Bowen is a coastal town and locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Bowen had a population of 10,377 people. The ...

– blues, soul and jazz musician *

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 ...

– blues singer and saxophonist *

Miiesha 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 a ...

- singer songwriter *

Seaman Dan Henry Gibson Dan (25 August 1929– 30 December 2020), known as Seaman Dan, an Indigenous Australian, was a Torres Strait Islander singer-songwriter with a national and international reputation whose first recording was released in 2000. His al ...

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) – singer-songwriter *

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 al ...

– didgeridoo player * Alan Dargin – didgeridoo player * Scott Darlow – singer-songwriter, didgeridoo player * Reggae Dave – reggae musician * Casey Donovan – pop/rock singer, winner of the second season (2004) of ''

Australian Idol ''Australian Idol'' is an Australian singing competition, which began its first season in July 2003 and ended its initial run in November 2009. As part of the ''Idol'' franchise, Australian Idol originated from the reality program '' Pop Ido ...

'' * Emma Donovan – singer-songwriter *

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 ...

– singer-songwriter * Sue Ray – country/blues singer/songwriter, winner of three QMusic awards *

Dewayne Everettsmith Dewayne Everettsmith is an Australian singer based in Hobart. He released his debut album ''Surrender'' in 2014. The album includes the song "Melaythina" which is the first commercially available song sung in Palawa kani. His song "It's Like Lov ...

– Tasmanian singer * Sharnee Fenwick – country singer *

Isaiah Firebrace Isaiah Firebrace (born 21 November 1999) is an Australian singer who won the eighth season of ''The X Factor Australia'' in 2016. He then represented Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song "Don't Come Easy", where he finis ...

– soul/pop singer * Tom Foster (musician) – Gospel songwriter *

Leah Flanagan Leah Flanagan is an Australian singer-songwriter and arts administrator from Darwin, Northern Territory. based in Sydney. She has released several albums and has toured Australia with her music and as a part of festival ensembles. Early life an ...

– Darwin singer-songwriter *

Richard Frankland Richard Joseph Frankland is an Australian playwright, scriptwriter and musician. He is an Aboriginal Australian of Gunditjmara origin from Victoria (Australia), Victoria. He has worked significantly for the Aboriginal Australian cause. Biog ...

– playwright, musician and activist *

Tia Gostelow Tia Gostelow (born 12 October 1999) is an Indigenous Australian singer-songwriter from Mackay, Queensland. Gostelow released her debut studio album, ''Thick Skin'', in 2018 on Lovely Records. ''Thick Skin'' was nominated for Album of the Year a ...

– singer-songwriter * Gawurra – singer-songwriter *

Joe Geia Joseph Benjamin Geia (born 1959, Ingham) is an Australian musician of Murri Aboriginal heritage. As a solo artist he has released three albums, ''Yil Lull'' (1988), ''Tribal Journey'' (1996) and ''Nunga, Koori and a Murri Love'' (2005). He ha ...

– musician, composer of the song "Yil Lull" * Robyn Green – gospel singer *

Djalu Gurruwiwi Djalu Gurruwiwi, also written Djalu ( – 12 May 2022), was a Yolngu man from Arnhem Land in northern Australia, known worldwide for his skill as a player, maker and spiritual keeper of the yiḏaki (didgeridoo). He was also a respected arti ...

– didgeridoo player *

Grant Hansen Grant Hansen is an Australian Indigenous musician and broadcaster who has worked as a host of the Marngrook footy show, broadcast on National Indigenous TV network as well as Channel 31, Foxtel, ABC and SBS . He has worked as a radio announcer / ...

– musician and broadcaster * Becca Hatch – musician and singer-songwriter * Glen Heald – musician, songwriter, producer * David Hudson – didgeridoo player * Ruby Hunter – singer-songwriter * Adam James – country singer *

Toni Janke Toni Janke ( ) is an Australian soul singer. She is a mother of two, a singer/songwriter/musician and is one of Australia's youngest Indigenous university graduates. She won a Deadly in 2002 for Female Artist of The Year Janke has Aboriginal ...

– soul singer *

Jimblah Jimblah (born James Alberts) is an indigenous Australian hip hop artist from the Larrakia nation who lives in South Australia and tours nationally. He has released two solo albums and an album with his duo Homeward Bound. He is signed to the El ...

– hip hop artist *

JK-47 Jacob Paulson (born 1997/1998), known professionally as JK-47, is an Indigenous Australian rapper, musician, and activist from Tweed Heads South, New South Wales. His debut album, ''Made for This'', was released independently on 4 September 2 ...

– rapper, musician *

J-Milla J-Milla, often styled J-MILLA, is an Aboriginal Australian hip hop musician . He was born as Jacob Nichaloff in Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin in the Northern Territory. Early life and education J-Milla was born as Jacob Nichaloff, and is o ...

– rapper, singer-songwriter * Tasman Keith – rapper, singer-songwriter *

Roger Knox Roger Knox (born 1948) is an Australian country singer, known as the Black Elvis and the Koori King of Country. Early life Knox is from the Gamilaroi nation, part of the Aboriginal Australian community, and was born in Moree, New South Wales. ...

– country singer * Sharon-Lee Lane – country singer *

The Kid Laroi Charlton Kenneth Jeffrey Howard (born 17 August 2003), known professionally as the Kid Laroi (stylised as the Kid LAROI), is an Australian rapper, singer and songwriter. He originally gained recognition from his association and friendship with A ...

– rapper, singer-songwriter * Lady Lash – rapper, singer-songwriter *

Herbie Laughton Herbert Patrick Laughton, (7 February 1927 - 2 December 2012) was a country singer from Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. He is also a member of the Stolen Generations. In 2005 he was inducted into the hall of fame at Music ...

– country singer * Georgia Lee – jazz and blues singer *

Tom E. Lewis Tom E. Lewis (traditional name: Balang Lewis; 25 August 1958 – 10 May 2018) was an Australian actor and musician. He was an Indigenous Australian from the Murrungun people. His first major role was the title role in the 1978 Fred Schepisi film ' ...

– actor and musician *

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– rapper *

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 profes ...

– country singer * Mau Power – hip hop artist from the Torres Strait Islands * Jessica Mauboy – pop and R&B singer, runner-up in the third season (2006) of ''

'' * Djolpa McKenzie – reggae, rock, dub and funk singer *

Bobby McLeod Bobby McLeod (1947 – 30 May 2009) was an Aboriginal activist, poet, healer, musician and Yuin elder. He was from Wreck Bay Village, Jervis Bay Territory. He was involved in the fight for Aboriginal rights in Australia and travelled the world s ...

– activist, poet, healer and musician * Sasha McLeod (Sycco) – singer-songwriter * Ali Mills – singer from Darwin * Rita Mills – singer from Torres Strait Islands * Shellie Morris – singer-songwriter * Munkimuk – hip hop artist * Johnny Nicol – jazz singer * Rachel Perkins – director, producer, screenwriter and singer * Thelma Plum – pop singer-songwriter *

Ziggy Ramo Ziggy Ramo Burrmuruk Fatnowna, known professionally as Ziggy Ramo, is an Australian singer. Early life Ziggy Ramo Burrmuruk Fatnowna was born to an Aboriginal and Solomon Islander father and a mother of Scottish heritage in Bellingen, New S ...

– singer-songwriter * Bob Randall – singer and author *

Wilma Reading Wilma Reading is a singer from Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Reading began her singing career in 1959 after singing for friends at a Brisbane jazz club. Reading performed on '' The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson'', had a residency at ...

– jazz singer *

Archie Roach Archibald William Roach (8 January 1956 – 30 July 2022) was an Australian singer, songwriter and Aboriginal activist. Often referred to as "Uncle Archie", Roach was a Gunditjmara and Bundjalung elder who campaigned for the rights of Abori ...

– singer-songwriter and guitarist *

George Rrurrambu George Rrurrambu Burarrwanga (1957 – 10 June 2007), known in life as George Rrurrambu and George Djilangya, was known as the frontman of Warumpi Band, an Aboriginal rock band. Burarrwanga was a Yolngu man, born in the remote homeland of Ma ...

– rock singer, ex Warumpi Band *

Xavier Rudd Xavier Rudd (born 29 May 1978) is an Australian singer, songwriter, musician, and multi-instrumentalist. Several of Rudd's songs incorporate socially conscious themes, such as spirituality, humanity, environmentalism and the rights of Indigen ...

– Australian folk singer of Aboriginal heritage *

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.

– singer-songwriter * Glenn Skuthorpe – folk and country singer-songwriter *

Alice Skye Alice Skye is an Australian singer and songwriter. She is a Wergaia woman from Horsham. In 2017, she was the Triple J Unearthed National Indigenous Winner. She released her debut album ''Friends with Feelings'' in 2018 and toured nationally wi ...

– singer-songwriter * Budjerah Slabb (Budjerah) – singer-songwriter *

Radical Son David Leha, known professionally as Radical Son, is a Kamilaroi and Tongan singer. He was part of the GetUp Mob, which released a cover version of "From Little Things Big Things Grow" in May 2008 – it reached No. 4 on the ARIA Singles Ch ...

– Indigenous Australian and Tongan singer *

Dan Sultan Daniel Leo Sultan (born 1983) is an Australian alternative rock singer-songwriter and guitarist, actor and author. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2010 he won Best Male Artist and Best Blues & Roots Album for his second album, '' Get Out While Y ...

– rock singer *

Richard Walley Richard Barry Walley (born 1953) OAM is a Nyungar man, one of Australia's leading Aboriginal performers, musicians and writers, who has been a campaigner for the Indigenous cause. Walley is also a visual artist. Life and career Walley, born ...

– activist and didgeridoo player * Kaiit Bellamia Waup (Kaiit) – neo soul singer * Rochelle Watson – R&B and soul singer * Brenda Webb – rock singer * Naomi Wenitong – singer-songwriter from Shakaya and The Last Kinection * David Williams – didgeridoo player * Gus Williams – country musician, community leader * Warren H Williams – country musician *

Bart Willoughby Bart Willoughby (born 12 September 1960) is an Indigenous Australian musician, noted for his pioneering fusion of reggae with Indigenous Australian musical influences, and for his contribution to growth of Indigenous music in Australia. A Pit ...

– musician, No Fixed Address, Coloured Stone, Mixed Relations *

Emily Wurramara Emily Wurramara is an Indigenous Australian singer and songwriter. In 2018, Wurramara was nominated for Best Blues and Roots Album at the ARIA Awards. Early life Wurramara is a Warnindhilyagwa woman from Groote Eylandt, off the Northern Te ...

– roots singer-songwriter *

Frank Yamma Frank Yamma is a singer and songwriter from Central Australia. He is a Pitjantjatjara man who speaks five languages and sings in both Pitjantjatjara and English. Yamma is the son of Issac Yamma, an early artist who pioneered singing Western styl ...

– indigenous roots musician *

Isaac Yamma Isaac Yamma (or Yama) (1940 – January 1990) was a country singer from Central Australia. He was a Pitjantjatjara man who was born by a waterhole near Docker River (Kaltukatjara). He started his musical career as a member of Areyonga Desert Tig ...

– country musician *

Dougie Young Dougie Young was a singer and songwriter from South West Queensland. Young had a white father (Frank Young) and a Gurnu mother (Olive Kathleen née McCarthy). Earlier in his life he worked as a stockman, during which he learnt the guitar and st ...

– country musician * Ursula Yovich – actress and singer *

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu (22 January 1971 – 25 July 2017), commonly known as Gurrumul and also referred to since his death as Dr G. Yunupingu, was an Aboriginal Australian musician of the Yolŋu peoples. A multi-instrumentalist, he played ...

– singer and guitarist, Yothu Yindi, Saltwater Band * Mandawuy Yunupingu – singer, community leader, Yothu Yindi

Indigenous bands

* A.B. Original – hip hop duo * Aim 4 More – Brisbane band * Amunda – rock band from

Alice Springs Alice Springs ( aer, Mparntwe) is the third-largest town in the Northern Territory of Australia. Known as Stuart until 31 August 1933, the name Alice Springs was given by surveyor William Whitfield Mills after Alice, Lady Todd (''née'' A ...

* Banawurun – "outback motown" band * Beddy Rays – punk rock band from

Redland Bay, Queensland Redland Bay is a coastal semi-rural locality in the City of Redland, Queensland, Australia. In the , Redland Bay had a population of 14,958 people. Since the first European settlers arrived in the mid-19th century, Redland Bay has remained a fa ...

, frontman 'Jacko' is a Woppaburra man *

The Black Arm Band Black Arm Band is an Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander music theatre organisation. History The organisation was founded in late 2005 by Steven Richardson and has produced seven large-scale productions since its debut performance a ...

– concert band of some of Australia's premier Indigenous musicians * Black Image – North Queensland band * Blackfire – rock band from

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/ Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metro ...

Blackstorm Blackstorm are a rock/blues band from Yuendumu in the Northern Territory. The members are Warlpiri and their songs are sung in Warlpiri and English. The band was nominated for a Deadly Award for Best Band in 2001. Music from Blackstorm and its ...

– rock/blues band from Yuendumu *

Blekbala Mujik Blekbala Mujik (Black People's Music) are an Australian rock, reggae group formed in Barunga, Northern Territory in 1986. They fused rock and reggae with a pop, dance sound and have support base for their live shows and recordings. They are ci ...

(Blackfella Music) – band from Arnhem Land *

Busby Marou Busby Marou (pronounced buz-bee ma-roo) are an Australian musical duo originally from Rockhampton, Queensland. The duo consists of Thomas Busby and Jeremy Marou while other musicians perform with them in concert. At the APRA Music Awards of 20 ...

– folk country pop band from Rockhampton * Coloured Stone – rock/reggae group from Ceduna * The Country Lads – country rock band *

Deadheart Deadheart is an Australian rock/pop band from Geelong. The band released two albums in the 1990s and finished in 2000 when singer and songwriter Ron Thorpe was killed in a car accident. Thorpe had previously played with No Fixed Address In ...

– rock/pop band from

Geelong Geelong ( ) ( Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in the south eastern Australian state of Victoria, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon ...

* Dispossessed – Sydney heavy metal band * Djaambi – band from

The Donovans The Donovans (The Donovan Band) are an Australian Aboriginal country music band. The Donovans have been playing together since their first official gig in 1984 at the Fire Brigade Ball in Mt Druitt. The Donovans grew up surrounded by the coun ...

– country band featuring the Donovan family * East Journey – rock/reggae band * Electric Fields – electronic music duo *

Fitzroy Xpress Fitzroy Xpress is an indigenous Aboriginal country rock band from the remote Kimberley town of Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Beginnings Members formed as a school band in 1982.Fitzroy Crossing * Ilkari Maru – rock band from Central Australia * Iwantja – rock band from Indulkana, South Australia * King Stingray – punk rock band, descendents from members of

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 ...

* Kuckles – Broome band featuring Jimmy Chi * Kulumindini Band – rock band from Elliott, Northern Territory * Lajamanu Teenage Band – rock band from

Lajamanu, Northern Territory Lajamanu, formerly known as Hooker Creek Native Settlement or just Hooker Creek, is a small town of the Northern Territory of Australia. It is located around from Katherine and approximately from Darwin. At the 2016 Australian census, Lajama ...

* The Last Kinection – hip-hop group from

Newcastle, New South Wales Newcastle ( ; Awabakal: ) is a metropolitan area and the second most populated city in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It includes the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie local government areas, and is the hub of the Greater Newcastle area ...

* Letterstick Band – reggae/rock band from Northeast Arnhem Land * Local Knowledge – hip-hop group from

* Lonely Boys – rock band from

Ngukurr Ngukurr ( , ), formerly Roper River Mission (1908−1968), is a remote Aboriginal community on the banks of the Roper River in southern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. A number of different clans and language groups are represented in the t ...

, Northern Territory *

The Medics The Medics are an Australian rock band formed in Cairns, Queensland in 2007. In April 2010 they moved to Brisbane. The band were formed by Emma Andrews, Jhindu Lawrie, Charles Thomas and Kahl Wallis. They later expanded to a five-piece with A ...

– rock band from

Cairns, Queensland Cairns (, ) is a city in Queensland, Australia, on the tropical north east coast of Far North Queensland. The population in June 2019 was 153,952, having grown on average 1.02% annually over the preceding five years. The city is the 5th-most-p ...

* Microwave Jenny – singer-songwriters * Mills Sisters – band from Torres Strait Islands * Mixed Relations – reggae, pop, rock and jazz band *

Nabarlek Nabarleks (''Petrogale concinna''), are a tiny species of macropod found in northern Australia. They are a shy and nocturnal animal that resides in rocky hollows and forages in the surrounding area. Their diet is grasses, sedges, and ferns fou ...

– Indigenous roots band from

Arnhem Land Arnhem Land is a historical region of the Northern Territory of Australia, with the term still in use. It is located in the north-eastern corner of the territory and is around from the territory capital, Darwin. In 1623, Dutch East India Compa ...

* Native Ryme Syndicate – Brisbane rap group *

No Fixed Address In law, no fixed abode or without fixed abode is not having a fixed geographical location as a residence, commonly referred to as no fixed address. This is applicable to several groups: * People who have a home, but which is not always in the ...

– reggae/ska/rock band from Ceduna *

NoKTuRNL Nokturnl is a band formed in 1996 in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia. Sometimes called rap metal; their music is hard to categorise, but their lyrics are influenced by their experience as Indigenous Australians. Nokturnl won "Band of ...

– hip hop/metal group from

* North Tanami Band – reggae/ska band from

* Ntaria Ladies Choir – choir from

Hermannsburg, Northern Territory Hermannsburg, also known as Ntaria, is an Aboriginal community in Ljirapinta Ward of the MacDonnell Shire in the Northern Territory of Australia, ; west southwest of Alice Springs, on the Finke River, in the traditional lands of the Western ...

The Pigram Brothers The Pigram Brothers are a seven-piece Indigenous Australian band from the pearling town of Broome, Western Australia, formed in 1996. They were heavily involved in Broome's musical and theatrical exports – forming the original backing band f ...

– country/folk group from Broome *

Saltwater Band Saltwater Band are an Indigenous roots band from Galiwin'ku on Elcho Island, around 560 kilometres from Darwin. The members are Yolngu and they sing mostly in Yolngu languages. Their songs are a mixture of traditional songs and reggae/ska influ ...

– Indigenous roots band from Galiwin'ku on Elcho Island *

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– country/reggae band from

Broome, Western Australia Broome, also known as Rubibi by the Yawuru people, is a coastal pearling and tourist town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, north of Perth. In the the population was recorded as 14,660. It is the largest town in the Kimberley re ...

* Shakaya – two piece girl group * Soft Sands – country and gospel band from Galiwin'ku on Elcho Island * South West Syndicate – hip hip group * Spin.FX – reggae, rock, country band from

Papunya, Northern Territory Papunya (Pintupi-Luritja: ''Warumpi'') is a small Indigenous Australian community roughly northwest of Alice Springs (Mparntwe) in the Northern Territory, Australia. It is known as an important centre for Contemporary Indigenous Australian art, ...

* Spinifex Gum – adolescent choral ensemble *

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 ...

– acoustic group from Sydney * Stik n Move – hip hop duo * Street Warriors – hip-hop group from

* Sunrize Band – rock band from Maningrida * The Merindas – pop duo *

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– rock band from

Darwin, Northern Territory Darwin ( ; Laragiya language, Larrakia: ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. With an estimated population of 147,255 as of 2019, the city contains the majority of the residents of the spa ...

* Tiddas – three girl folk band from Victoria, Australia *

Tjimba and the Yung Warriors Yung Warriors (also called Tjimba and the Yung Warriors) are an Australian hip hop group, formed in 2007. They released their debut album ''Warrior for Life'' in June 2007. Yung Warriors played at 2008 Big Day Out, at Yabun in Sydney, and at t ...

– hip hop group from

* Tjintu Desert Band – desert reggae band *

Tjupi Band Tjupi Band is a Central Australian Indigenous band from the community of Papunya, Northern Territory. They sing in Luritja and English and play desert reggae. The lineup changes depending on who is available and can include Kumunjay Daniels, Samm ...

– reggae band from

Us Mob Us Mob were an early Aboriginal reggae rock band from South Australia. The band was formed with the help of the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music in Adelaide. Overview Us Mob appeared in the film ''Wrong Side of the Road'' with fellow CASM ...

– rock band from

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* Warumpi Band – rock/reggae group from Papunya *

The Wilcannia Mob The Wilcannia Mob or Barkandji Boys were a hip-hop musical group of five Indigenous Australians from Wilcannia, New South Wales. The group formed in 2001, aged from nine to fourteen, with Buddy Blair, Keith Dutton, Wally Ebsworth, Colin "Colro ...

– rap/hip-hop group from

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* Wild Water – reggae, rock, dub and funk band *

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– rock/reggae band * Harry and Wilga Williams – country music artists *

Wirrinyga Band Wirrinyga Band (also known as Warrinyga Band) are a rock band from Milingimbi, a small island in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. The band members are Yolngu. They sing in both Language and English and they mix modern instruments with traditiona ...

– rock band from

Milingimbi Milingimbi Island, also Yurruwi, is the largest island of the Crocodile Islands group off the coast of Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. Location Milingimbi lies approximately east of Darwin and west of Nhulunbuy. History Aborig ...

Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Aust ...

Yabu Band Yabu Band is an Indigenous Australian rock, roots band formed in 1998 in Kalgoorlie. The word ''yabu'' is Wongutha – a western desert tribal language – for 'rock' or 'gold'. Core members are brothers Delson (vocals) and Boyd Stokes (guitar & v ...

– desert rock/reggae band *

– rock/folk group from

* Yugul – blues band

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