The National Indigenous Music Awards 2023 were the 20th annual
National Indigenous Music Awards
The National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMA), also known as the NT Indigenous Music Awards from 2004 to 2008, are music awards presented to recognise excellence, innovation and leadership among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musicians in ...
(NIMAs), and took place on 12 August 2023. Nominations were revealed on 12 July 2023.
Performers
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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 ...
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Budjerah
Budjerah Julum Slabb ( ; born 17 March 2002), known mononymously as Budjerah, is an Australian singer from Fingal Head, New South Wales. He is a Coodjinburra man from the Bundjalung nation.
His debut single "Missing You" was released in Oc ...
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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 ...
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Kobie Dee
* Dean Brady
* Ngulmiya
* Fred Leone - "Yirimi Gundir"
reference:
Hall of Fame inductee
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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 ...
Triple J Unearthed National Indigenous Winner
* Djanaba
Archie Roach Foundation Award
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Wildfire Manwurrk
Awards
The nominations was revealed on 12 July 2023.
Winners indicated in boldface, with other nominees in plain.
Artist of the Year
New Talent of the Year
Album of the Year
Film Clip of the Year
Song of the Year
Community Clip of the Year
Indigenous Language Award
References
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