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There was an all-female Australian Aboriginal singing group named The Sapphires in the 1960s, although there were three members: Laurel Robinson (mother of screenwriter Tony Briggs), Beverly Briggs, and her sister Naomi Mayers. They performed at hotels, pubs, cabarets, clubs, parties, army barracks and universities around Melbourne. [5] [6]
The Sapphires: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is a soundtrack album for the film The Sapphires (2012), released on 27 July 2012 by Sony Music Australia.It features the vocals of Jessica Mauboy, Jade MacRae, Lou Bennett, Juanita Tippens and Darren Percival, with Mauboy singing in ten of the sixteen songs. [1]
In the 2012 musical film The Sapphires, Jessica Mauboy portrays the character of Julie McCrae, one of four Indigenous women who are discovered by a talent scout and formed into a 1960s singing group called The Sapphires, known as Australia's answer to The Supremes. [1] [2] The group travel to Vietnam in 1968 to sing for the US troops during the ...
Jessica Mauboy, star of 2013 Australian breakout hit “The Sapphires,” returns to a leading film role for the first time in over a decade in family feature “Windcatcher.” Directed by Tanith ...
Tony Briggs (born 3 July 1967) is an Aboriginal Australian actor. He is best known for creating the stage play The Sapphires (later a 2012 film), which tells the true story of an Aboriginal singing girl group who toured Vietnam during the war.
The Sapphires is an Australian play written by Tony Briggs and directed by Wesley Enoch. [1] It is set in 1968 (a year after the referendum, which symbolically expanded the rights of Aboriginal people) and it tells the story of The Sapphires, a singing group of four Yorta Yorta women who tour Vietnam during the war.
Mayers was born in 1941, [1] of Yorta Yorta and Wiradjuri heritage. [2]She was one of three members of The Sapphires, along with Beverly Briggs (her sister) and Laurel Robinson, in the 1960s.
Sapphire, a band that includes members of the band Alyson Avenue; The Sapphires (American band), a 1960s American pop group; The Sapphires (Australian band), a 1960s Aboriginal Australian trio of female singers; The Sapphhires (backing vocalists), a 1950s male Australian trio of backing singers, worked with Col Joye