This is a list of Indigenous Australian musicians.

Solo artists

Trevor Adamson Trevor Adamson is an Australian country/gospel singer best known for his song ''Nyanpi Matilda'', a Pitjantjatjara people, Pitjantjatjara version of Waltzing Matilda. He is from Pukatja, South Australia and sings in both Pitjantjatjara and Engl ...

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

Barkaa Chloe Quayle (born 1995), known by her stage name Barkaa (stylised in all caps), is an Aboriginal Australian rapper and musician. In September 2020, ''GQ Magazine'' dubbed her "the new matriarch of Australian rap". and in 2020, Triple J listed ...

– rapper *

Auriel Andrew Auriel Marie Andrew (1947 – 2 January 2017) was an Australian country music singer from the Northern Territory. She was the first Aboriginal woman to appear on Australian television. Early life Auriel Marie Andrew was born in 1947 in Dar ...

– country musician *

Christine Anu Maia Christine Anu (born on 15 March 1970) is an Australian singer-songwriter and actress of Torres Strait Islander origin. She gained popularity with the cover song release of the Warumpi Band's song " My Island Home" in 1995. Anu has been no ...

– singer-songwriter, actress, producer, and speaker *

David Arden David Arden is an Australian singer-songwriter and Aboriginal activist. is a Kokatha and a Gunditjmara Songman. He has performed with Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter, Tiddas, Bart Willoughby, Mixed Relations and with members of Shane Howard, Paul ...

– singer and guitarist *

George Assang George Assang (1927–1997), also known by his stage name Vic Sabrino, was an Australian jazz and blues singer and actor from Thursday Island, Queensland, Australia. He performed under his own name and the stage name Vic Sabrino. Assang was of ...

– singer and actor * Mark Atkins –

didgeridoo The didgeridoo (;()), also spelt didjeridu, among other variants, is a wind instrument, played with vibrating lips to produce a continuous Drone (music), drone while using a special breathing technique called circular breathing. The didgerido ...

player * Maroochy Barambah – mezzo-soprano *

Black Allan Barker Allan Moarywaalla Barker (12 April 1942 – 5 December 2003), known as Black Allan Barker, is a singer and songwriter from Port Hedland. He described his music as "Aboriginal grassroots blues" and is about Aboriginal oppression and rights. B ...

– country/blues singer * William Barton – didgeridoo player *

Lou Bennett Lou Bennett (May 18, 1926, Philadelphia – February 10, 1997, Paris) was an American jazz organist. Bennett first played bebop on piano, but started playing organ in 1956 after hearing Jimmy Smith. Bennett toured the U.S. with an organ trio bet ...

– musician and actor * Birdz – rapper and singer-songwriter *

Harold Blair Harold Blair (13 September 1924 – 21 May 1976) was a Wulli Wulli man, an Australian tenor and Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal activist. He has been called the "last great Australian tenor of the concert hall era". Early life Blair was ...

– tenor *

David Blanasi David Blanasi ( – disappeared 2001), also known as David Bylanadji, also spelt David Bulanatji, was an Aboriginal Australian player and maker of the didgeridoo, known as master of the "Kunborrk, Kunbjorrk" or "Gunborg" style of playing. He is k ...

– 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 Tjapanangka 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 ...

– guitarist *

Kev Carmody Kevin Daniel Carmody (born 1946), better known by his stage name Kev Carmody, is an Aboriginal Australian singer-songwriter and musician, a Murri man from northern Queensland. He is best known for the song " From Little Things Big Things Grow" ...

– singer-songwriter *

Bernard Carney Bernard James Carney is an Australian musician, who has worked in music since 1974. He is a songwriter, community choir director and guitar teacher. He has made nine albums, including "West", "Feathers and tributes", and "No time like the fut ...

– musician *

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 ...

– country musician *

Deborah Cheetham Deborah Joy Cheetham Fraillon (born Deborah Joy Cheetham, 1964) is an Aboriginal Australian soprano, composer, and playwright. She leads Short Black Opera, based in Melbourne, which provides training and opportunities for emerging Aboriginal a ...

– opera singer *

Jimmy Chi James Ronald Chi (1948 – 26 June 2017) was an Australian composer, musician and playwright. His best known work is the 1990 musical ''Bran Nue Dae'', which was adapted for film in 2009. Early life and education James Ronald Chi was born in B ...

– composer, musician and playwright *

Marcus Corowa Marcus Corowa is an Indigenous Australian singer/songwriter from Bowen, Queensland Bowen is a coastal town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Bowen had a ...

– 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 Elizabeth Rose Young, known mononymously as 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 Awar ...

– singer-songwriter *

Seaman Dan Henry Gibson Dan (25 August 1929 – 30 December 2020), known as Seaman Dan, was a Torres Strait Islander singer-songwriter with a national and international reputation. His first recording, an album called ''Follow the Sun'', was released in 2 ...

– 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 Alan Dargin (13 July 196724 February 2008) was an indigenous Australian musician and songwriter known for being a didgeridoo player. He grew up in Wee Waa and started learning the instrument at age five from his grandfather and other Wiradjuri ...

– didgeridoo player *

Scott Darlow Scott Darlow is an Australian singer, songwriter, guitarist, didgeridoo player and public speaker from Melbourne, Victoria. Early life and education Darlow was born in Melbourne, Australia to Salvation Army parents, the second of four childr ...

– singer-songwriter and didgeridoo player * Reggae Dave – reggae musician * Casey Donovan – pop/rock singer *

Emma Donovan Emma Donovan (born 1981) is an Aboriginal Australian singer and songwriter. She is a member of the renowned musical Donovan family. She started her singing career at age seven with her uncle's band, the The Donovans, Donovans. In 2000, she became ...

– singer-songwriter *

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 ha ...

– singer-songwriter *

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 ...

– singer * Sharnee Fenwick – country singer *

Isaiah Firebrace Isaiah Firebrace (born 21 November 1999) is an Australian singer who won the The X Factor (Australia season 8), eighth season of ''The X Factor (Australian TV series), The X Factor Australia'' in 2016. He then represented Australia in the Eurovi ...

– 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 ...

– singer-songwriter *

Richard Frankland Richard Joseph Frankland is an Australian playwright, scriptwriter and musician. He is an Aboriginal Australian of Gunditjmara origin from Victoria. He has worked significantly for Aboriginal Australian causes. Early life Richard Joseph Fra ...

– playwright, musician and activist *

Tia Gostelow Tia Gostelow is an Indigenous Australian singer-songwriter from Mackay, Queensland. Gostelow released her debut studio album, ''Thick Skin'', in 2018 on Lovely Records. Further albums, ''Chrysalis'' and ''Head Noise'' followed. Early life and ...

– singer-songwriter * Gawurra – singer-songwriter *

Joe Geia Joseph Benjamin Geia (born 1959) is an Aboriginal Australian musician of Murri 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 has worked w ...

– musician * Robyn Green – gospel singer *

Djalu Gurruwiwi Djalu Gurruwiwi, written Djalu ( – 12 May 2022), was a Yolngu musician, artist, and leader from Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. He was globally recognised for his acquired skill as a player, maker, and spiritual keeper of ...

– 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 Rebecca "Becca" Hatch (born 2001) is an Australian musician and singer-songwriter from Sydney, Australia. She signed to "Forever Ever Records", a joint venture label between Australian hip hop music, hip hop host Hau Latukefu and Sony Music Aus ...

– musician and singer-songwriter * Glen Heald – musician, songwriter and producer * David Hudson – didgeridoo player *

Ruby Hunter Ruby Charlotte Margaret Hunter (31 October 195517 February 2010), also known as Aunty Ruby, was an Aboriginal Australian singer, songwriter and guitarist, and the life and musical partner of Archie Roach. Early life Ruby Hunter was born on 31 ...

– singer-songwriter * Adam James – country singer *

Toni Janke Toni Janke ( ) is an Australian Indigenous singer/songwriter/musician. Early life and career She was one of youngest Indigenous students to graduate from university. Toni holds qualifications in arts, law, ministry and theology. She set up he ...

– soul singer *

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

– hip-hop artist *

JK-47 Jacob Paulson (born 15 January 1997), 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 Septe ...

– rapper *

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

– rapper and singer-songwriter *

Tasman Keith Tasman Keith is an Australian rapper and singer-songwriter. Early life Tasman Keith is a Gumbaynggirr man from Bowraville, New South Wales. At age seven Tasman and his family moved from Bowraville to Sydney for his father's music. His dad w ...

– rapper ans singer-songwriter *

Roger Knox Roger Knox (born 1948) is an Australian country singer, nicknamed "the Black Elvis" and "Koori King of Country". Early life and education Knox was born in 1948 in Moree, New South Wales. He is of the Gamilaroi nation, an Aboriginal Australian ...

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

The Kid Laroi Charlton Kenneth Jeffrey Howard (born 17 August 2003), known professionally as the Kid Laroi (stylized as The Kid LAROI), is an Australian rapper, singer and songwriter. He was first discovered by Triple J Unearthed in 2016 at the age of 13. As ...

– rapper and singer-songwriter * Lady Lash – rapper and 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 N ...

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

Tom E. Lewis Tom E. Lewis (25 August 1958 – 10 May 2018), also known by his traditional name Balang Lewis, and sometimes credited as Tommy Lewis was an Aboriginal Australian actor, musician, and artistic director. His first major role was the title role in ...

– 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 professi ...

– country singer *

Mau Power Mau Power, born Patrick James Mau, is a hip hop artist from Thursday Island in the Torres Strait and is the first Australian rapper to tour from this region.Australian Independent Record Labels Association, Sept 17, 2019, Mau Power – Arrived P ...

– hip-hop artist *

Jessica Mauboy Jessica Hilda Mauboy (; born 4 August 1989) is an Australian singer. Born and raised in Darwin, Northern Territory, she rose to fame in 2006 on the Australian Idol (season 4), fourth season of ''Australian Idol'', where she was runner-up and s ...

– pop and R&B singer * Djolpa McKenzie – reggae, rock, dub and funk singer * Bobby McLeod – activist, poet, healer and musician * Sasha McLeod (Sycco) – singer-songwriter *

Ali Mills Ali Mills is an Indigenous singer based in Darwin, Northern Territory Darwin ( Larrakia: ') is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. The city has nearly 53% of the Northern Territory's population, with 139,902 at the ...

– singer * Rita Mills – singer *

Shellie Morris Shellie Morris is an Indigenous Australian singer/songwriter who plays a mix of contemporary folk music and contemporary acoustic ballads. Biography and career Shellie Morris was raised in Sydney and began singing at an early age. She often per ...

– singer-songwriter *

Munkimuk Mark Ross, known as Munk or Munkimuk is a Sydney-based hip hop performer and music producer. He is known as The Grandfather of Indigenous Hip Hop and has been performing since 1984 as a breakdancer and rapping since 1988. He is known for his music ...

– hip-hop artist *

Kankawa Nagarra Kankawa Nagarra (born circa 1943), (also known as Olive Knight) is an Aboriginal Australian blues and gospel singer-songwriter and author. She sings in Walmajarri, Kimberley Creole and English. Her 2024 album ''Wirlmarni'' won the Australian ...

– blues and gospel singer-songwriter * Johnny Nicol – jazz singer *

Rachel Perkins Rachel Perkins (born 1970) is an Indigenous Australian film and television director, producer, and screenwriter. She founded and was co-director of the independent film production company Blackfella Films from 1992 until 2022. Perkins and the ...

– director, producer, screenwriter and singer *

Thelma Plum Thelma Amelina Plumbe (born 21 December 1994), known professionally as Thelma Plum, is an Aboriginal Australian ( Gamilaraay) singer, songwriter, guitarist and musician from Delungra, New South Wales. Her debut album, '' Better in Blak'', was ...

– 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 Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal and Solomon Islander father and a mother of Scottish heritag ...

– 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 Ne ...

– jazz singer *

Archie Roach Archibald William Roach (8 January 1956 – 30 July 2022) was an Australian (Gunditjmara and Western Bundjalung people, Bundjalung) singer-songwriter and Aboriginal Australian, Aboriginal activist. Often referred to as "Uncle Archie", Roach wa ...

– 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 Mata ...

– rock singer *

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 ...

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folk singer Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has b ...

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'. ' ...

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

Alice Skye Alice Skye (born Alice Anderson) is an Australian singer and songwriter. She is a British and Wergaia/ Wemba Wemba woman from Horsham. Career In 2017, Skye was the Triple J Unearthed National Indigenous Winner. She released her debut album, ' ...

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

Radical Son David Leha, known professionally as Radical Son, is a First Nations, 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 AR ...

– singer *

Dan Sultan Daniel Leo Sultan 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 You Can'' (N ...

– rock singer *

Richard Walley Richard Barry Walley (born 1953) is a Nyungar man and an Aboriginal Australian performer, musician and writer, who has been a campaigner for the Indigenous cause. Walley is also a visual artist. Life and career Walley, born in 1953 in Meekat ...

– activist and didgeridoo player * Kaiit Bellamia Waup (Kaiit) – neo-soul singer * Rochelle Watson – R&B and soul singer *

Brenda Webb Brenda Webb is an indigenous Australian singer and actress. Her debut single "Little Black Girl" was nominated for the ARIA Award for Best Independent Release. "Little Black Girl" was released in 1993 and received radio airplay all over the coun ...

– rock singer *

Naomi Wenitong Naomi Sky Wenitong (born 1982) is an Australian singer-songwriter based in Cairns, Queensland. Under the name, Nay, she is a member of hip hop group, The Last Kinection, alongside her older brother, Joel "Weno" Wenitong, and Jacob "DJ Jaytee" ...

– singer-songwriter * David Williams – didgeridoo player * Gus Williams – country musician, community leader *

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 t ...

– country musician *

Bart Willoughby Bartholomew Edwin Willoughby (born 1960) is an Aboriginal 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 mul ...

– musician *

Emily Wurramara Emily Wurramara is an Indigenous Australian singer and songwriter. At the 2024 ARIA Music Awards, she won the ARIA Award for Best Adult Contemporary Album, making her the first Indigenous woman to ever win in this category. Early life Emily W ...

– roots singer-songwriter *

Frank Yamma Frank Yamma (born ) is an Aboriginal 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 Isaac Yamma, an early artist who pioneere ...

– indigenous roots musician *

Isaac Yamma Isaac Yamma (1940 – January 1990), also spelt Yama, was a country singer from Central Australia. He is the father of Frank Yamma. Early life Isaac Yamma was a Pitjantjatjara man who was born by a waterhole near Docker River ( Kaltukatjara) ...

– country musician *

Dougie Young Dougie Young (30 August 1933 – 1 April 1991) 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 ...

– country musician *

Ursula Yovich Ursula Yovich is an Aboriginal Australian actress and singer. She is known for numerous stage appearances, for co-writing and appearing in the rock musical '' Barbara and the Camp Dogs'' (2017), and several film and TV appearances. Early life ...

– 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 a Yolŋu Aboriginal Australian musician. A multi-instrumentalist, he played drums, keyboards ...

– singer and guitarist *

Mandawuy Yunupingu Mandawuy Djarrtjuntjun Yunupingu , formerly Tom Djambayang Bakamana Yunupingu, and also known as Dr Yunupingu (17 September 1956 – 2 June 2013), was a teacher and musician, and frontman of the Aboriginal rock group Yothu Yindi from 1986. He ...

– singer and community leader

Indigenous bands

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

Alice Springs Alice Springs () is a town in the Northern Territory, Australia; it is the third-largest settlement after Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin and Palmerston, Northern Territory, Palmerston. The name Alice Springs was given by surveyor William ...

* Banawurun – "outback motown" band *

Beddy Rays Beddy Rays are an Australian rock band from the outer Brisbane suburb of Redland Bay, Queensland. With music described as "rollicking coastal punk rock", they are best known for their 2020 single "Sobercoaster". The band have supported Tones a ...

– 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 17,056 people. Since the first European settlers arrived in the mid-19th century, Redland Bay has remained a f ...

, 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 language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victori ...

Blackstorm Blackstorm are an Australian 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 Blacksto ...

– 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 cite ...

(Blackfella Music) – band from Arnhem Land *

Busby Marou Busby Marou (pronounced buz-bee ma-roo) are an Australian musical duo consisting of Thomas Busby and Jeremy Marou, from Rockhampton, Queensland. At the APRA Music Awards of 2012, the duo won "Blues & Roots Work of the Year" category for their si ...

– folk country pop band from Rockhampton *

Coloured Stone Coloured Stone is an Aboriginal Australian band whose members originate from the Koonibba Mission, west of Ceduna, South Australia. They first became known for their 1984 single, "Black Boy". The band performs using guitar, bass, drums, and A ...

– rock/reggae group from Ceduna *

The Country Lads The Country Lads are an Australian Indigenous band who played country rock with gospel themes. They released two albums through CAAMA The Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) is an organisation founded in 1980 to expose Abori ...

– country rock band * Deadheart – rock/pop band from

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

* Dispossessed – Sydney heavy metal band *

Djaambi Djaambi were an urban rock band formed in 1989 by Richard Frankland (ex-Interaction) on lead vocals and saxophone, with both Aboriginal and white members. Initially a ten-piece, they had a variable line-up and sometimes had 15 performers. The ...

– 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 cou ...

– country band featuring the Donovan family *

East Journey East Journey are a rock/reggae band from North East Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. They combined modern and traditional music and sing in both English and Yolŋu. History The band formed in 2010, and their debut album ''Guwak'' was released ...

– rock/reggae band *

Electric Fields Electric Fields is an Australian electronic music duo made up of vocalist Zaachariaha Fielding and keyboard player and producer Michael Ross. Electric Fields combine modern electric-soul music with Aboriginal culture and sing in Pitjantjatj ...

– 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 Fitzroy or FitzRoy may refer to: People Given name * Several members of the Somerset family (Dukes of Beaufort) have this as a middle-name: ** FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788–1855) ** Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort (Henry Charles ...

* Ilkari Maru – rock band from Central Australia *

Iwantja Indulkana (also known as Iwantja, from Iwantja Creek) is an Aboriginal community in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in South Australia, comprising one of the six main communities on "The Lands" (the others being Pukatja, Amata ...

– rock band from Indulkana, South Australia *

King Stingray King Stingray is an Rock music in Australia, Australian rock band from East Arnhem Region, Northeast Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. With a sound self-described as "Yolŋu surf rock", the band perform songs with lyrics in both English an ...

– punk rock band, descendents from members of

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 wh ...

Kuckles Kuckles was an Aboriginal Australian band in the early 1980s. History Kuckles ( Broome kriol for '' cockles'') formed in 1981 after a group of students from Broome, Western Australia moved to Adelaide, South Australia to study at the Centre fo ...

– Broome band featuring Jimmy Chi * Kulumindini Band – rock band from

Elliott, Northern Territory Elliott ( Jingili: ''Kulumindini'') is a town in Northern Territory of Australia. It is almost halfway between Darwin and Alice Springs on the Stuart Highway. The town is in the Yapurkulangu ward of the Barkly Region. At the 2021 census, Elli ...

* 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 The Last Kinection is an Indigenous hip-hop group from Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. The band was formed in 2006 by Joel Wenitong, DJ Jay Tee (both from Local Knowledge) and Naomi Wenitong (Shakaya). The Last Kinection first came to at ...

– hip-hop group from

Newcastle, New South Wales Newcastle, also commonly referred to as Greater Newcastle ( ; ), is a large Metropolitan area, metropolitan area and the second-most-populous such area of New South Wales, Australia. It includes the cities of City of Newcastle, Newcastle and Ci ...

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 pla ...

– reggae/rock band from Northeast Arnhem Land *

Local Knowledge Traditional knowledge (TK), indigenous knowledge (IK), folk knowledge, and local knowledge generally refers to knowledge systems embedded in the cultural traditions of regional, indigenous, or local communities. Traditional knowledge include ...

– hip-hop group from

* Lonely Boys – rock band from

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

, 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 An ...

– rock band from

Cairns, Queensland Cairns (; ) is a city in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia, on the tropical north east coast of Far North Queensland. In the , Cairns had a population of 153,181 people. The city was founded in 1876 and named after Sir William Welling ...

Microwave Jenny Microwave Jenny is an Australian pop/folk/jazz duet that consists of Tessa Nuku on vocals and Brendon Boney on guitar and vocals. They both have Indigenous backgrounds with Brendon having been born and raised in Wagga Wagga, and Tessa having been ...

– singer-songwriters *

Mills Sisters __NOTOC__ The Mills Sisters, formerly known as the Singing Grandmas, were a group of three sisters from Torres Strait Islands, Rita Mills and twins Cessa and Ina. Early life Ina and Cessa, who were twins, were born in 1927, and Rita in 1934, ...

– band from Torres Strait Islands *

Mixed Relations Mixed Relations were an Australian band formed by Bart Willoughby. They played a mixture of reggae rock, pop, and jazz. Mixed Relations toured Aboriginal communities, Australian cities, Pacific Islands, New Zealand, United States, Europe, Cana ...

– reggae, pop, rock and jazz band * Mop and the Dropouts - Brisbane rock band *

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– Indigenous roots band from

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

Native Ryme Syndicate Native Ryme Syndicate is an Australian hip hop group formed in Brisbane, Queensland. Native Ryme Syndicate won a Deadly award in 1998 for Most Promising New Talent. They were the first Australian urban music group to the elite music festivals ...

– Brisbane rap group *

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– reggae/ska/rock band from Ceduna * NoKTuRNL – 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 Australians, Aboriginal community in Ljirapinta Ward of the MacDonnell Shire in the Northern Territory of Australia, ; west southwest of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Alice Springs, on t ...

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 ...

– country/folk group from Broome * Olive and Eva - vocal duo *

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 influe ...

– Indigenous roots band from Galiwin'ku on

Elcho Island Elcho Island, known to its traditional owners as Galiwin'ku (Galiwinku) is an island off the coast of Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is located at the southern end of the Wessel Islands group located in the East Arnhe ...

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– country/reggae band from

Broome, Western Australia Broome, also known as Rubibi by the Yawuru, Yawuru people, is a coastal Pearl hunting, pearling and tourist town in the Kimberley (Western Australia), Kimberley region of Western Australia, north of Perth. The town recorded a population of 14,6 ...

Shakaya Shakaya are an Australian girl group formed in Cairns, Queensland, in 2002 by Simone Stacey and Naomi Wenitong. The two met in 1999 while studying an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music course and they had both been writing individually ...

– two piece girl group * Soft Sands – country and gospel band from Galiwin'ku on

South West Syndicate South West Syndicate were an Australian hip-hop collective from Sydney formed in 1992. They are made up of Aboriginal, Lebanese-Australian, Pacific Islander, Croatian, German and Anglo hip hop artists. Core members include Munkimuk, Brothablack, ...

– 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 Spinifex Gum is an Australian musical collective based in Cairns, a collaboration between the Indigenous ensemble the Marliya Choir, Felix Riebl and Ollie McGill of the Melbourne band The Cat Empire, Lyn Williams, and Deborah Brown. The perfor ...

– 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 (band), Tiddas. The band was formed by Emma Donovan, Nardi Simpson and Kaleena Briggs in 1999, af ...

– 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 ( Larrakia: ') is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. The city has nearly 53% of the Northern Territory's population, with 139,902 at the 2021 census. It is the smallest, wettest, and most northerly of the Australi ...

* Tiddas – three girl folk band from Victoria, Australia * Tjimba and the Yung Warriors – hip hop group from

Tjintu Desert Band Tjintu Desert Band is a Central Australian Indigenous band from Ikuntji, a small community 230 kilometres west of Alice Springs. Previously known as Sunshine Reggae or Sunshine Reggae Band they changed their name to include the Luritja The Lu ...

– desert reggae band * Tjupi Band – reggae band from

* Us Mob – rock band from

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Warumpi Band Warumpi Band () were an Australian country and Aboriginal rock group which formed in the outback settlement of Papunya, Northern Territory, in 1980. The original line-up was George Burarrwanga on vocals and didgeridoo, Gordon Butcher Tjapana ...

– rock/reggae group from

Papunya 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 ar ...

* The Wilcannia Mob – rap/hip-hop group from

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Wild Water Whitewater forms in the context of rapids, in particular, when a river's Stream gradient, gradient changes enough to generate so much turbulence that air is trapped within the water. This forms an unstable current that foam, froths, making t ...

– reggae, rock, dub and funk band *

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

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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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Solo artists

Indigenous bands

See also

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