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Country music has remained particularly popular among the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for decades, as documented in Clinton Walker's seminal Buried Country. Dougie Young and Jimmy Little were pioneers and Troy Cassar-Daley is among Australia's successful contemporary Indigenous performers of country music.
Seaman Dan was born on 25 August 1929 in the general hospital on Thursday Island in the Torres Strait Islands Region of Far North Queensland, Australia. [1] His great-grandfather was a sailor from Jamaica in the West Indies, and his great-grandmother a chief's daughter from New Caledonia. [2] Another grandfather came from the island of Niue in ...
Saltwater Band – Indigenous roots band from Galiwin'ku on Elcho Island; Scrap Metal – country/reggae band from Broome, Western Australia; Shakaya – two piece girl group; Soft Sands – country and gospel band from Galiwin'ku on Elcho Island; South West Syndicate – hip hip group; Spin.FX – reggae, rock, country band from Papunya ...
"Taba Naba" is a children's song originating in the Torres Strait Islands just north of the continent of Australia. This song is usually accompanied by a "sit-down dance" where the "dancers" perform traditional movements corresponding to the lyrics. The song is a traditional song in Meriam Mir, a language of the Torres Strait Islanders.
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. They ran from 1996 to 2013.
The Torres Strait Islands' population was recorded at 4,514 in the 2016 Australian census, with 91.8% of these identifying as Indigenous Torres Strait Island peoples. Although counted as Indigenous Australians, Torres Strait Islander peoples, being predominantly Melanesian, are ethnically and culturally different from Aboriginal Australians.
Religious affiliations of Torres Strait islanders in localities with significant share of Torres Strait islander population [4] The Islanders refer to this event as "The Coming of the Light", also known as Zulai Wan, [ 47 ] [ 57 ] or Bi Akarida, [ 48 ] and all Island communities celebrate the occasion annually on 1 July.
The Deadly Awards stemmed from the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-op's 1993 Deadly Sounds music and culture radio show, and were driven by Gavin Jones. [4] Jones created Vibe Australia, a management agency which ran The Deadlys, [1] among other events, and the first Deadlys (then the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Music, Sport, Arts and Community Awards) were held in 1995 at ...