Archie Roach

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Archie Roach at the WOMAD Music Festival in Adelaide, 2011
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Into the Bloodstream
  AU 49 October 29, 2012 (1 week)
Let Love Rule
  AU 24 11/21/2016 (1 week)
Tell Me Why
  AU 7th 11/11/2019 (1 week)

Archie Roach (born January 8, 1956 in Mooroopna , Victoria ) is a singer and songwriter from Australia , who deals in his songs with the real life and dream time of the Aborigines .

Life

Archie Roach lived on the Framlingham Aboriginal Mission, which is near Warrnambool in southwest Victoria. He was taken away from his family as a child and, like tens of thousands of Aboriginal children, suffered the fate of the Stolen Generation and grew up first in an orphanage and then in a family of Scottish origin in Melbourne . He then lived for many years on the streets of Melbourne and Adelaide . When he met Ruby Hunter , he built a children's home with her for Aboriginal children, made music with Hunter and formed a band.

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In 1990 Roach released a music album on the subject of the stolen generation. He won the ARIA Awards twice , the Human Rights Award and a gold record . He released Jamu Dreaming in 1992 and Looking for Butter Boy in 1997 , with which he won three ARIA Awards.

Roach performed at numerous festivals and in 1992 in the USA and further in Great Britain, Germany, China, Japan and Taiwan. In the USA he met Bob Dylan .

Discography

Albums

  • Charcoal Lane (1990)
  • Jamu Dreaming (1993)
  • Looking for Butter Boy (1997)
  • Sensual Being (2002)
  • Journey (2007)
  • Into the Bloodstream (2012)
  • Let Love Rule (2016)
  • Tell Me Why (2019)

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  1. ^ Archie Roach in the Australian charts

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personal data
SURNAME Roach, Archie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian songwriter, musician from the Aboriginal people
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Mooroopna, Greater Shepparton City , Australia