The Deadlys
The Deadly Awards, 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 held from 1995 to 2013.
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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
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.
*Band of the Year:
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 pl ...
*Most Promising New Talent: J Boy
*Country Artist of the Year:
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 G ...
*Male Artist of the Year:
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 ...
*Female Artist of the Year:
Kerrianne Cox
*Album Release of the Year:
Warren H Williams
Warren Hedley Williams (born 27 December 1963) is an Aboriginal Australian singer, musician and songwriter from Hermannsburg in Central Australia. As of 2013 he worked as a broadcaster on CAAMA Radio in Alice Springs.
Early life
Williams wa ...
Where My Heart Is
*Single Release:
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 ...
Morning Star
*Excellence in Film or Theatrical Score:
Mark Ovenden
Mark may refer to:
Currency
* Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
* East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic
* Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927
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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 Swamp ...
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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 Nath ...
Community
*Aboriginal Broadcaster of The Year:
2CUZ FM
2CUZ FM is an Indigenous Australian, Indigenous community radio station in the North-Western NSW town of Bourke, New South Wales, Bourke. It has been on air since 1996. The station broadcasts to the regional towns of Brewarrina, Goodooga, New S ...
References
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The Deadly Awards
2001 music awards
2001 in Australian music
Indigenous Australia-related lists