The Yolngu song never quite achieved what it set out to in the lifetime of its author, but it gave reconciliation in Australia an anthem Dr Yunupingu was the unlikeliest of pop stars. An Aboriginal ...
Being able to call Mr Yunupingu a friend is an enormous privilege. He wasn’t just one of this country’s best known and most successful Indigenous Australians. He was an incredibly special human being.
Galiwin'ku, Elcho Island, the Yolngu people’s customary land. The lead singer of Yothu Yindi, a Yolngu band, died yesterday, aged 56. Flickr/boobook48 The lead singer of the band Yothu Yindi died ...
Northern Territory band Yothu Yindi has been inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame at the 26th annual music awards ceremony in Sydney. Federal Minister and former lead singer of Midnight Oil Peter ...
Yothu Yindi had a global hit with their 1991 song "Treaty." By Lars Brandle Yothu Yindi, the Australian rockers, activists, and traditional songmen, will be inducted into the National Indigenous Music ...
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Yunupingu, lead singer of Australian rock band Yothu Yindi, which mixed traditional Aboriginal music and modern rock, has died at the age of 56 after battling kidney disease. Best ...
The widow of former Yothu Yindi front man Mr Yunupingu has yielded to clan demands over the burial site for her husband. The decision follows a dispute between Yalmay Yunupingu and senior clan members ...
If INXS can continue without Michael Hutchence, and Canned Heat can be a band where only the drummer was in the original lineup, then there's no reason why Yothu Yindi can't change their name (to ...
More than 35 years after their formation, the Top End's most famous musical export will be honoured with a permanent place in the history books. Yothu Yindi will enter the National Indigenous Music ...
Mandawuy Yunupingu, an artist, mentor and ambassador who galvanized Australia's indigenous and non-indigenous people and brought contemporary Aboriginal music to the world through his group Yothu… By ...
THEY were the world-famous band who put indigenous rights back on the national agenda and into the music charts and now Yothu Yindi's cultural impact has put them into the ARIA Hall Of Fame. The ...
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Mandawuy Yunupingu, lead singer of Australian rock band Yothu Yindi, which mixed traditional Aboriginal music and modern rock, has died at the age of 56 after battling kidney ...