Ruby Hunter & Archie Roach
Singers / Songwriters - Ruby's Story and Kura Tungar
Ruby Hunter & Archie Roach
Ruby Hunter and Archie Roach are two of Australia's best loved Indigenous artists. Performing separately and together, Ruby and Archie have touched the hearts and minds of audiences everywhere.
Ruby is a Ngarrindjerri/Kukatha/Pitjantjatjara woman from South Australia. She is often cited by other musicians as a source of inspiration and is firmly established as a unique and powerful voice in Australian music. In 1994 Ruby was the first Indigenous woman to release a solo album, Thoughts Within. Feeling Good, her second album was released in 2000, winning many awards including Female Performer of the Year at the 6th Deadly Sounds National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Music Awards.
Archie is a singer, songwriter, poet and story teller of international renown. Charcoal Lane, his 1990 debut album, was a landmark release winning ARIA awards for Best Indigenous Album and Best New Talent - US Rolling Stone named Charcoal Lane as one of their Top 50 albums for 1992. The song Took The Children Away also saw Archie receive the Human Rights Achievement Award – the first time the award was ever presented to a songwriter. Since then Archie has released three albums Jamu Dreaming (1993), Looking for Butter Boy (1997) and Sensual Being (2002), winning critical acclaim and numerous awards. His film credits include Land Of The Little Kings, which earned Archie his second Human Rights Achievement Award, and Rolf de Heer’s award-winning The Tracker.
In 2003, Ruby and Archie began a collaboration with the Australian Art Orchestra and have so far created two hugely successful shows: Ruby's Story and Kura Tungar: River Songs and Stories.
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