Shannon Narrun Williams, known as Brothablack, is a Sydney-based Indigenous hip hop performer. Brothablack was a founding member of

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-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

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, 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

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to create a song for a campaign by reconcile.org.au highlighting Indigenous mortality rates. He has received extensive airplay on

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including performing a set for Live at the Wireless, broadcast on 9 July 2007.Triple
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/ref> From series 1 to 3, he co-host Move it Mob Style with Naomi Wenitong.

Discography

* ''More Than A Feeling'' (2007)

References

External links

official site

SBS: Alchemy
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