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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 ...
Mills was born in 1934 on Naghir Island in Torres Strait. [1] She lived on Thursday Island, and during World War II was temporarily evacuated to the mainland. [2] Rita was one of the Mills Sisters with her twin sisters Cessa and Ina. [3] All three sisters sang, and Rita played guitar in their band. [4]
Archibald William Roach AC (8 January 1956 – 30 July 2022) was an Australian singer-songwriter and Aboriginal activist. Often referred to as "Uncle Archie", Roach was a Gunditjmara (Kirrae Whurrong/Djab Wurrung [1]) and Bundjalung elder who campaigned for the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
The Deadly Awards were an annual celebration of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievement in music, sport, entertainment and community. They ran from 1995 to 2013. They ran from 1995 to 2013.
The Mills Sisters had a repertoire of over 200 songs, which ranged from Torres Strait Island love songs to contemporary music, and included country, blues, reggae.They sang in many languages besides English: a variety of Samoan, Hawaiian, Papua New Guinean, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island languages.
Christine Anu (born 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 nominated for many ARIA Awards, winning several, as well as five Deadly Awards, among others.
He was 12 years old when he died. Kaleb Torres appears in recent Twitter video. Kaleb Torres appears healthy in a video posted to Shriners' Twitter account on Feb. 27. In the video, he dances and ...
Georgia Lee was born as Ramer Lyra "Dulcie" Pitt on 22 February 1921, her father, Douglas Pitt jnr (ca. 1877–1926) was of Jamaican, Scottish and Loyalty Islander descent and her mother, Myra Kemple-Hopkin's heritage was Afghani, Australian Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Scottish.