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Archibald William Roach AC (8 January 1956 – 30 July 2022) was an Australian (Gunditjmara and Bundjalung [1] [2]) singer-songwriter and Aboriginal activist. Often referred to as "Uncle Archie", Roach was a Gunditjmara (Kirrae Whurrong/Djab Wurrung [3]) and Bundjalung elder who campaigned for the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Archie Roach was also a producer of the film and the team worked closely with Ruby Hunter’s surviving family. The film is a combination of concert film, biography and history. The film was winner of the top prize for Best Documentary Feature at the Australian International Documentary Conference in 2023. [ 2 ]
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From the 1960s through to the 1980s, the inner-city Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy was a meeting place for Aboriginal people who had left missions, Aboriginal reserves, and other government institutions and drifted to the city in a bid to trace their families, [1] and Roach was one of these. A street behind a factory was a meeting and drinking ...
Sensual Being is the fourth studio album by Australian singer songwriter Archie Roach. The album was released in July 2002 and peaked at number 59 on the ARIA Charts . At the ARIA Music Awards of 2002 , the album was nominated for Best Adult Contemporary Album .
Wash My Soul in the River's Flow (2021), written and directed by Philippa Bateman and produced by Bateman, Kate Hodges and Archie Roach, is a feature-length documentary based on the 2004 concert Kura Tungar-Songs from the River, featuring Roach, Hunter, Paul Grabowsky and the Australian Art Orchestra, [19] in which Hunter and Roach sing about ...
Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images. Reflecting on his trip to Angola in 2019, he revealed that he "walked in his mother's footsteps."He recalled, "Where she first walked in 1997, I found a ...
A photo from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s son Archie’s christening marks the third picture that the royal family has been accused of editing.. The Daily Mail reported on Tuesday, March 19 ...