biography
| name: |
Yunupingu, Mandawuy
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pronunciation:
[yunupinggoo, mand
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| male
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| lived:
| (1956– )
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| biography:
| Singer, born in Yirrkala, a former Methodist mission in NE Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. He studied education at Deakin University, and became principal of the local school, one of the first Aboriginal headmasters in the country. A member of one of the leading families in the Gumatj clans, in 1986 he established the group Yothu Yindi (‘mother–child’ in Yolngu-matha). Since then the group has achieved wide success in terms of sales, critical acclaim, and promotion of a political message. In 1993 he was made Australian of the Year, an honour also bestowed on his brother Galarrwuy in 1978. |
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