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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 Reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Deadlys
The Deadly Awards, formally titled National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Music, Sport, Arts and Community Awards and 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 hosted by Vibe Australia, founded by Gavin Jones in 1993, and was held from 1995 to 2013, when government funding was cut. The Dreamtime Awards are a successor in recognising Indigenous achievements. Description The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Music, Sport, Arts and Community Awards, commonly known as 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 Deadly Awards stemmed from the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-op's 1993 ' ... [...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 man.Hermannsburg (2) 1958 - 1959 The family moved to the in 1945, where his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vic Simms
William Victor Simms (29 January 1946 – 8 February 2025), known as Vic Simms, Vicki Simms and Uncle Vic, was an Australian singer who was from La Perouse, New South Wales, and was a Bidjigal man."Once in a Lifetime" the story of Vic Simms'. ''Message Stick.'' ABC''.'' 21 October 2005. Archived frothe originalon 3 January 2017. He performed with Johnny O'Keefe, Shirley Bassey and Robie Porter among other prominent singers. Biography Simms was born on 29 January 1946 on La Perouse Mission in the south east of Sydney. He was one of 10 children. Simms began his singing career aged 12, at the Manly Jazzorama Music Festival in 1957,Deadly Vibe . In 1961, he released his debut single (as "Vicki Simms"), "Yo-Yo Heart" on |
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 ... * ''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-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] |
Kutcha Edwards
Kutcha Edwards (born 1965) is an Aboriginal Australian singer and songwriter. He is known as a former member of the band Blackfire during the 1990s. More recently, he has fronted the Kutcha Edwards Band, and is part of The Black Arm Band. He has been nominated for several Music Victoria Awards, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in the 2023 Music Victoria Awards. He won the Melbourne Prize for Music in 2016. Early life and education Kutcha Edwards 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. Career Edwards' music career began in 1991 as a member of the band Watbalimba. He later joined the band Blackfire who he was with during the 1990s. He contributed lyrics to a revised version of "Advance Australia Fair"-collaborating with Judith Durham, and singing the anthem not only with her, but also in a solo version. He released his third album, '' ... [...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, formally titled National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Music, Sport, Arts and Community Awards and commonly known simply as The Deadlys, was an annual celebration of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander a ... 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 Ntaria in Central Australia. Williams has also worked in radio and as an actor and has run as an Australian Greens candidate in the 2010 and 2013 Federal elections. 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 Williams was included on a compilation CD released in 1999 to promote reconciliation in Australia. The album was titled ''Reconciliation: Stories of the Heart, Sounds of the Rock'' and included music, personal statements from celebrities, and excerpts from historical speeches and events. In 2007, he wrote the musical ''Magic Coolamon'', which debuted as the first ever Central Australian Indigenous mu ... [...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 (band), 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 language, 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''. Kaleena Briggs is a Wiradjuri/Yorta Yorta woman and Nardi Simpson Yuwaalaraay woman. The band won The Deadlys, Deadlys in Deadly Awards 2000, 2000 for Most Promising New Talent and in Deadly Awards 2001, 2001 for their single "Morning Star". In 2012 Stiff Gins performed at TEDx Sydney, simulcast by ABC Radio Sydney, ABC Radio. In 2016 Stiff Gins, with Lucy Simpson, Felix Cross and Syd Green, created ''Spirit of Things'', new works expl ... [...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 ''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Austral ...'', 16 June 2005, "Settling the score" by Denis Brown References External linksYolngu Boy bio Australian film score composers Australian 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 , natively ) are an Australian musical group with Australian Aboriginal, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal members, formed in 1986 as a merger of two bands formed in 1985 – a white rock group called the Swamp Jockeys (Todd Williams, Michael Wyatt, Cal Williams, Stuart Kellaway, Andrew Bellety), and an unnamed Aboriginal folk group consisting of Mandawuy Yunupingu, Witiyana Marika, and Milkayngu Mununggur. 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 on drums, Witiyana Marika on manikay (traditional vocals), bilma (ironwood clapsticks) and dance, Milkayngu Mununggurr on yidaki, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu on keyboard (music), keyboards, guitar, and percussion, past lead singer Mandawuy Yunupingu and ... [...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 number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
