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4.30.08
Aboriginal Musician Rocks iTunes
Australians are snapping up new music from Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, an Aborginal musician who sings some of his songs in his native language, Yolngu. According to the International Herald Tribune, his first solo album, “Gurrumul,” released earlier this year, “jumped to No. 1 on the iTunes Australia roots music chart (it is currently No. 3)” and “is running strong in the mainstream iTunes music chart, above such international heavy hitters as Mariah Carey.” His MySpace page touts it as “One of the most important and beautiful Indigenous albums yet recorded.” Here’s a video clip from a recent show:
If you like this, you might also check out Saltwater Band, which he founded.
This guy is amazing, how lucky Byron Bay is to have him coming on the 9th of June
By on 5.7.08 at 07:48 PM
He is pretty talented, I checked out his Myspace page, he has about 6 songs on there, all kinda sound the same, but very good. Thanks for doing a writeup on him.
