Archie Roach

Rock Singer

Archie Roach was born in Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia on January 8th, 1956 and is the Rock Singer. At the age of 68, Archie Roach biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
January 8, 1956
Nationality
Australia
Place of Birth
Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
Age
68 years old
Zodiac Sign
Capricorn
Profession
Composer, Singer, Songwriter
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Archie Roach Life

Archibald William Roach, AM (born 8 January 1956, Mooroopna) is an Australian musician.

He is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist, as well as a campaigner for Indigenous Australians. Charcoal Lane, Roach's debut solo album, was released in 1990.

It featured the song "Took the Children Away," which was added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry in 2013. He was also named in 2013 as the Year's Best Contribution to the Stolen Generations, as well as Album of the Year.

He and fellow Deadly winner Pat O'Shane called for an end to the Northern Territory War Intervention.

Roach has performed around the world, including headlining and opening shows for Joan Armatrading, Bob Dylan, Billy Bragg, Tracy Chapman, Suzanne Vega, and Patti Smith.

Early life

Archibald William Roach was born in Mooroopna, Victoria, on January 8, 1956. Mooroopna is named after an Aboriginal word referring to a bend in the Goulburn River near Shepparton, central Victoria. Roach of Gunditjmara (Kirrae Whurrong / Djab Wurrung) and Bundjalung origins.

Roach's family and the remaining Aboriginal population of Cummeragunja were rehoused at Rumbalara in 1956. The family then moved to Framlingham, where his mother had been born.

Roach and his siblings and brothers, as well as other Indigenous Australian children of the Stolen Generations, were compelled to leave their families by government departments and placed in an orphanage at the age of two or three. Roach was eventually sponsored by Alex and Dulcie Cox, a family of Scottish immigrants in Melbourne, after two traumatic placements in foster care. Mary Cox, the couple's eldest daughter, will perform church hymns and show Roach the fundamentals of guitar and keyboards. Roach's love of music was fueled by Alex's collection of Scottish music. "He had a major influence on me and had a positive reputation." I'll love him to death."

Roach's natural sister, Myrtle, told him his mother had just died at fifteen. He spent the next fourteen years on the streets fighting heroinism. Ruby Hunter, the People's Palace in Adelaide, was Roach's future wife when she was 16 years old.

Personal life

Roach was married to Ruby Hunter (died 2010), who was also his musical partner. Amos and Eban were their two sons. Kriss, Terrence, and Arthur were three foster children at the time, as well as three foster children.

Roach suffered a stroke while working in the Kimberley area on October 14th, 2010. He returned to live action in April 2011 after recovering from injury. Due to an early diagnosis in 2011 and major surgery, he survived lung cancer.

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Archie Roach Career

Career

Roach's career spanned three decades, during which he toured extensively, opening and opening shows for singers including Joan Armatrading, Bob Dylan, Tracy Chapman, Suzanne Vega, and Patti Smith.

Roach and Hunter formed the Altogethers, a group of Indigenous Australians in the late 1980s, and moved to Melbourne. Roach wrote his first song, "Took the Children Away," which he performed on a Melbourne community radio station and on an Indigenous current affairs program in 1988. Paul Kelly, an Australian musician, invited Roach to open his concert early in 1989, where he performed "Took the Children Away" a song describing the Stolen Generations and his own expulsion from his family. His appearance was met with shocking silence and then erupting applause.

Roach's debut solo album, Charcoal Lane, was released in May 1990 with the support of Kelly. At the 1991 show, the album was certified gold and two ARIA Awards were given. "Took the Children Away" was one of Australia's most popular songs in recent history. The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission in Australia awarded the song's first Human Rights Award for songwriting in 1990. By Rolling Stone magazine, Charcoal Lane appeared in the top 50 albums for 1992.

Roach's second studio album, Jamu Dreaming, was released in May 1993. David Bridie, Tiddas, Paul Kelly, Vika and Linda Bull, Ruby Hunter, Dave Arden, and Joe Geia contributed to the album's success. The album reached number 55 on the ARIA Charts, peaking at number 55.

In 1995, Roach toured extensively around the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Europe. Tiddas, Kev Carmody, Bart Willoughby, Shane Howard, and Bunna Laurie took home the title track for ATSIC's Native Title CD, Our Home, Our Land. In 1996, Roach gave a speech to the Stolen Generations Commission's Inquiry into the Stolen Generations before embarking on a national tour as a guest of Tracy Chapman.

Roach's third studio album, Looking for Butter Boy, was released in October 1997, on his native land in south-west Victoria. "Hold On Tight," the album's lead single, received the ARIA Award for Best Indigenous Release in 1997, and the album received the same award and the Best Adult Contemporary Album at the 1998 awards ceremony.

Roach's fourth studio album, Sensible Being, debuted in July 2002, peaking at number 59 on the ARIA charts. He appeared on Rolf de Heer's film The Tracker in 2002.

In 2004, Roach and Hunter collaborated with the Australian Art Orchestra (AAO) and Paul Grabowsky to produce a performance titled Ruby's Story. Ruby Hunter shares the tale of Ruby Hunter from childhood near a billabong on the banks of the Murray River, through to the discovery of hope through love. The performance premiered at the Sydney Opera House in June 2004 and received raves. Ruby's soundtrack received the Deadly Award for Excellence in Film & Theatric Score in 2004, and the performance then went on tour throughout the country and internationally until 2009. In 2005, the soundtrack was released both as an album on CD and as a digital download.

In October 2004, Robyn Archer conducted a new show, Kura Tungar – Songs from the River, which was once more a showcase for Hunter, Grabowsky, and the AAO. The performance, which was hosted by Patrick Nolan, included tales from the two performers' lives as well as songs about the Murray River and Ngarrindjeri Country, Ruby's home. The performance included Roach and Hunter's lyrics and chords, as well as Grabowsky and the AAO's contemporary jazz orchestration. It was attended by full houses, which resulted in standing ovations, and was later performed at the Sydney Opera House and Adelaide Festival Centre. Kura Tungar received the Helpmann Award for the Best Contemporary Australian Concert at the 5th Helpmann Awards in 2005.

Roach launched Journey, an album of songs, in October 2007 as a companion piece to a documentary film called Liyarn Ngarn, which was directed by Roach, Patrick Dodson, and Pete Postlethwaite.

Roach appeared in the world premiere of the musical theatre performance of Dirtsong, produced by Black Arm Band theatre company, in October 2009. Alexis Wright wrote them, though some of them were performed in Indigenous languages. The performance was revived as the closing show at the 2014 Adelaide Festival. Trevor Jamieson (2014 only), Lou Bennett, Emma Donovan, and Paul Dempsey were among the other performers on the show.

ABC Music first unveiled Roach recordings from 1988 under the album name 1988.

Roach released Into the Bloodstream in October 2012, an album he described as being made on suffering after the death of his wife in February 2010. He received a Deadly Award for Album of the Year for this album as well as a "Lifetime Contribution to Healing the Stolen Generations" in 2013.

Creation, a 4-CD box set of his first four studio albums, was released in October 2013. The album was released in conjunction with Roach's new live show, Creation, which debuted at the inaugural Boomerang Festival in Byron Bay from 4 to 6 October 2013.

Roach (and Shane Howard) received Best Original Song Composed for the Screen "The Secret River" from The Secret River at the APRA Music Awards in 2015.

With a special remastered version, Roach commemorated Charcoal Lane's 25th anniversary. The new edition included a second disc containing previously unreleased Triple J – Live At The Wireless website, as well as new interpretations of classic Charcoal Lane work by various artists. Roach's 25th anniversary was celebrated in November and December 2015.

Roach's seventh studio album, Let Love Rule, debuted at number 24 on the ARIA Charts in November 2016, his highest charting album to date.

In March 2017, Roach received the Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Contributions to Australian Music at the APRA Music Awards.

Roach appeared at the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony on the Gold Coast in April 2018. With Amy Shark, she appeared at the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony.

In May 2019, Roach's The Concert Collection 2012–2018 and 2019 were nominated for two prizes at the 2019 National Indigenous Music Awards.

On November 1, Roach released a memoir entitled Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music, as well as a companion album Tell Me Why on the same day. His book was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction in 2020 and was named in the 2020 Indie Book Nonfiction Award. At the 2021 Australian Book Industry Awards, it was also named as the Year's Best Audiobook of the Year. The album's lead single, "Open Up Your Eyes," is Roach's first song, dating back to the late 1970s, but it had not been released until now. Describe Me Why was Roach's first top-ten album on the ARIA Charts.

In a feature film based on Philippa Bateman's 2004 appearance "Songs from the River" (2021), Hunter, Hunter, Paul Grabowsky, and the Australian Art Orchestra, in which Hunter and Roach talk about the Murray River and Ngarrindjeri lands, Hunter and Roach performs about the Murray River and the Ngarrindjeri lands. Hunter and Roach's love story is also told in the film, which is interspersed with a vision of The Coorong. In October 2021, the film made its world premiere at the Brisbane International Film Festival and was an official selection for the Sydney Film Festival and the Melbourne International Film Festival in December 2021.

Roach's career-spanning anthology, My Songs: 1989–2021, was released in March 2022, and he was subsequently nominated for the 2022 National Indigenous Music Awards two weeks before his death.

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Why Michael Long, an Essendon AFL legend, will perform in front of 80,000 fans at the MCG Dreamtime game

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 17, 2023
After winning the Norm Smith Medal as the best on ground in the 1993 grand final, the renowned Bomber is no stranger to performing in front of huge crowds. But at the Dreamtime at the G game, he'll be thrilling the fans with a microphone in his hand rather than a football.

At the 2023 APRA Music Awards, silverchair frontman Daniel Johns was nominated for Song of the Year

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 30, 2023
At the 2023 APRA Music Awards, Daniel Johns has been selected for Song of the Year. I Feel Electric, the 43-year-old Silverchair frontman, received the award for his solo album, I Feel Electric. DJ Flume and Julia Jacklin, rockers King Stingray, and late Archie Roach are among the others competing for the award, which is voted by 3000 local songwriters.

Molly Meldrum reveals how he feels about turning 80

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 27, 2023
Molly Meldrum is 80 on Sunday and he was celebrating early on Friday. The music legend appeared at the Australian Music Vault in Melbourne, where he was presented with a cake. It featured likenesses of Kylie Minogue, Tina Arena, Michael Gudinski, and Archie Roach.