Kev Carmody

Last updated

Kev Carmody
Birth nameKevin Daniel Carmody [1]
Born1946 (age 76–77)
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Genres
Occupation(s) Musician
Instrument(s) Vocals, guitar, harmonica
Years active1987–present
Labels Larrikin/Festival, Song Cycles
Website Official website

Kevin Daniel Carmody (born 1946), better known by his stage name Kev Carmody, is an Aboriginal Australian singer-songwriter and musician, a Murri man from northern Queensland. He is best known for the song "From Little Things Big Things Grow", which was recorded with co-writer Paul Kelly for their 1993 single. It was covered by the Get Up Mob (including guest vocals by both Carmody and Kelly) in 2008 and peaked at number four on the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) singles charts.

Contents

Carmody has won many awards, and in 2009 was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame as well as being a recipient of the Queensland Greats Awards. In 2019, Carmody was recipient of the JC Williamson Award at the Helpmann Awards. He is also known for his activism for Aboriginal rights.

Early life and education

Kevin Daniel Carmody [2] was born in 1946 in Cairns, Queensland. His father, John "Jack" Carmody, was a second-generation Irish descendant and his mother, Bonny, an Aboriginal woman of Lama Lama and Bundjalung descent, were not allowed to get married because she was Aboriginal, and they went to Cairns because "the rules were a lot slacker there" due to the large number of migrants working in the cane fields. [3] [4] [5] [6] Jack (also known as "Bull"), had been a member of the red beret parachute commando unit in World War II, and had sustained a back injury during training. [3]

Kevin's younger brother, Laurie, was born three and a half years later. [5] His family moved to southern Queensland in early 1950, and he grew up on a cattle station near Goranba (and Tara [3] ) 70 kilometres (43 mi) west of Dalby in the Darling Downs area of south eastern Queensland. [5] [6] [7] They lived in a hut with a dirt floor, [3] and his parents worked as drovers, moving cattle along stock routes. [5] The boys had to be hidden from authorities for fear of being taken from their parents. [3]

At ten years of age, Carmody and his brother were taken from their parents under the assimilation policy as part of the Stolen Generations and sent to a Catholic school in Toowoomba, [4] [5] [8] after Jack and Bonny were given the choice of sending the boys to school, or Bonny and the boys being sent permanently to live on Great Palm Island. The school was housed in an old army barracks on about 90 ha (220 acres) and run by nuns. Carmody said that the boys did not do much schoolwork, but spent their time feeding chickens, collecting eggs, "hauling in coal for the kitchen stoves and buttering bread for the nuns". They were allowed to visit their parents twice a year. He did not learn to read until he was 11 years old. [3]

After schooling, he returned to his rural roots and worked for 17 years as a country labourer, [6] [9] including droving, shearing, bag lumping, wool pressing and welding. [6] [10] The family all pooled their earnings into the same bank account, and lived mostly off the land. [3]

In 1967, he married Helen, with whom he has three sons; they later divorced but remain "good mates". [5]

University

In 1978, at the age of 33, Carmody enrolled in university, [7] Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education (now part of the University of Southern Queensland).

At the night time I was always just interested in music, so I started to study music [by myself] and got to a standard, when I moved to Toowoomba and got a proper music teacher. And she said to me, 'you know, you're miles ahead of the standard they’d require to get into the music course at the University of Southern Queensland'.

— Kev Carmody [11]

Due to his limited schooling, Carmody's reading and writing skills were not up to required university standard. Undeterred, he suggested to the history tutor that until his writing was suitable he would present his research in a musical format accompanied by guitar. [8] While this was a novel approach at university, it was in line with the far older Indigenous tradition of oral history. Although Carmody had extensive historical knowledge, learnt by oral traditions, much of it could not be found in library history books and was attributed to "unpublished works". [11] Carmody completed his Bachelor of Arts degree, [9] then postgraduate studies and a Diploma of Education at the University of Queensland, followed by commencing a PhD in History, on the Darling Downs 1830–1860. [6]

I was supposed to be studying history and music, but I'd be in the library with books on everything, geology, theorems of thermodynamics. I wished I'd had the time to take every course.

— Kev Carmody [12]

At university, Carmody had used music as a means of implementing oral history in tutorials, which led to his later career.[ citation needed ]

Music career

1987-1989: Pillars of Society

In the early 1980s, Carmody began his musical career. He signed a recording contract in 1987 [5] and his first album, Pillars of Society, was released on the Rutabagas label (a label founded by artist Frances Mahony and technologist Joe Hayes); the rights were later transferred to Larrikin Records/EMI in December 1988. [4] [6] It drew heavily upon country and folk styles with tracks such as "Black Deaths in Custody" and "Thou Shalt Not Steal" describing ignorance and oppression experienced by indigenous Australians. [4] [10] In the song "Thou Shalt Not Steal", Carmody draws attention to the hypocrisy of British settlers who brought Christianity to Indigenous Australians, including the commandment prohibiting theft, and yet took the land that the Aboriginal people had inhabited for more than 60,000 years. He emphasises the importance of land to the indigenous people, "The land’s our heritage and spirit", and turns the Christian lesson given to indigenous people around: "We say to you yes, whiteman, thou shalt not steal". [13] A Rolling Stone (Australia) journalist, Bruce Elder, described it as "the best album ever released by an Aboriginal musician and arguably the best protest album ever made in Australia". [6] [10] Pilllar of Society was nominated for a 1989 ARIA Award for Best Indigenous Release. In subsequent recordings Carmody adopted a broad range of musical styles, from reggae to rock and roll.

That first album was acoustic because we didn't have enough money for anything else, but as I went on, I was always exploring sound. One of the things he [Carmody's grandfather] said to us was, you have to learn to listen to the wind. What he was saying was, use your imagination, widen it out, be aware of things around you. You learn to listen in another way. That's the key to my music. Just opening up to that sensory perception of sound.

— Kev Carmody [12]

1990-1992: Eulogy (For a Black Person) and Street Beat

Carmody's second album, Eulogy (For a Black Person), released in November 1990, was produced by Connolly, [14] with musical support from the rest of the Messengers and members of pioneering Aboriginal rock band Mixed Relations. [4] [10] A review of the album noted that "Using a combination of folk and country music his hard-hitting lyrics deal with such potent material as the David Gundy slaying, [15] black deaths in custody, land rights and Aboriginal pride and dignity. Carmody is deeply committed, powerfully intelligent and persuasively provocative. He uses images of revolutionaries... and challenges white Australia to stare unrelentingly at the despair which underpins Aboriginal society". [16] The first single from the album, "Blood Red Rose", was described by Carmody as "a comment on personal isolation. Late night, big city alienation", [17] whilst the B-side, "Elly", is the moving story of a young woman attempting to escape the poverty and racism of western Queensland, who finds herself trapped in Surfers Paradise working in the sex industry. [17] Eulogy (For a Black Person) was nominated for a 1992 ARIA Award for Best Indigenous Release.

Early in 1991 Carmody co-wrote a song, "From Little Things Big Things Grow", with Paul Kelly; [18] it was an historical account of the Gurindji tribe drovers' walkout led by Vincent Lingiari at Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory during the 1960s, the incident which sparked off the indigenous land rights movement. [4] It was first recorded by Paul Kelly & the Messengers on Comedy in May and included Steve Connolly as guitarist of the Messengers. [4]

Carmody's 1992 EP Street Beat was nominated for a 1993 ARIA Award for Best Indigenous Release.

1993-1999: Bloodlines and Images and Illusions

Carmody's third album, Bloodlines, was released in July 1993 and included his own version of "From Little Things Big Things Grow", with Kelly guesting on vocals, which was issued as a single. Bloodlines received a 1994 ARIA Award nomination for Best Indigenous Release, and the single "On the Wire" was nominated for this award in 1995.

Also in 1993 Carmody was the subject of a musical documentary, Blood Brothers - From Little Things Big Things Grow , by Rachel Perkins and directed by Trevor Graham, which explored Carmody's life, using music clips and historical footage. [19]

After the release of his fourth album, Images And Illusions, in September 1995, produced by Steve Kilbey of The Church, [10] [20] The album was nominated for a 1996 ARIA Award for Best Indigenous Release. Carmody re-evaluated his life and career, reducing the demands placed on him by the mainstream recording industry. [10] He continued performing, as a musician and public speaker, to audiences as diverse as the National Press Club and Aboriginal Australians in prison. [10]

2000-2006: One Night the Moon and Mirrors

2000 saw the release of Messages a compilation of songs from Carmody's first four albums. In 2001, together with Kelly, Mairead Hannan, John Romeril, Deirdre Hannan and Alice Garner, Carmody assisted in writing the musical score for the Australian film One Night the Moon . [21] [22] The soundtrack won a Screen Music Award at the 2002 Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA)/Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) Awards. [23]

After a break of nearly ten years Carmody released his fifth studio album in 2004. The album, Mirrors, was completely self-financed and distributed. It was recorded at a friend's property "down the road" and was his first album recorded with computer technology. [8] [10] The songs on Mirrors cover a range of contemporary issues including refugee treatment and his thoughts on United States President George W. Bush, accompanied by the captured real life sounds of the Australian bush. [10]

2007-2009: Cannot Buy My Soul and ARIA Hall of Fame

In 2007, Kelly organised the double album, Cannot Buy My Soul - The Songs of Kev Carmody , with tribute songs by various artists on one disc and a second disc of songs by Carmody himself. [5] [24]

I first heard his music 20 years ago, and was drawn straight away to his blend of politics and prayer, poetry, anger and pride. His body of work is one of our great cultural treasures.

— Paul Kelly [12]

On 31 October, Carmody was a special guest at the TV music channel MAX's "The Max Sessions: Powderfinger, Concert for the Cure" [25] singing alongside front man Bernard Fanning to the controversial "Black Tears" and also joined in with the encore of "These Days". The concert was a fundraiser and thank you to the "unsung heroes" of breast cancer with an invitation-only audience made up of a special group of people – those who have suffered and survived breast cancer and their support networks. The concert closed Breast Cancer Awareness Month and was the brainchild of 20-year-old Nick Vindin, who had lost his mother Kate to the disease a few years earlier. [26]

In the aftermath of the Australian Labor Government's 2008 apology to indigenous Australians, Carmody and Kelly reprised their song "From Little Things Big Things Grow" by incorporating samples from speeches by Prime Ministers Paul Keating in 1992 and Kevin Rudd in 2008. [10] [27] Released under the name The Get Up Mob, part of the GetUp! advocacy group, the song peaked at #4 on the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) singles charts. [28] This version featured vocals by Carmody and Kelly, as well as other prominent Australian artists (including Urthboy, Missy Higgins, Mia Dyson, Radical Son, Jane Tyrrell, Dan Sultan, Joel Wenitong and Ozi Batla). [10]

On 22 October 2008, a DVD from two Sydney performances by Carmody and various artists was released as Cannot Buy My Soul: Kev Carmody. [29]

On 27 August 2009, Carmody was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame alongside The Dingoes, Little Pattie, Mental As Anything and John Paul Young, [30] [31] [32] Carmody's first reaction was to laugh and reply "I must be getting into the Hall of Fame with the lowest record sales in history". [33] At the ceremony, Missy Higgins inducted Carmody, who accepted the induction,

I accepted this for the Koori culture, the community and the family [...] It's a recognition of the input we've had on music. My songs came from what my grandmother, my mother, father, aunty and uncles told me. I'm just a conduit of stories. [34]

— Kev Carmody, 27 August 2009

Carmody was joined onstage by Paul Kelly, Dan Kelly, Missy Higgins and John Butler to perform "From Little Things Big Things Grow". [34] As of 2007 he lived with his partner Beryl on a 27-hectare (67-acre) bush block in south-east Queensland. [5]

2010-present

In 2015, EMI released the 4 disc Recollections... Reflections... (A Journey).

In 2020, Cannot Buy My Soul: The Songs of Kev Carmody was re-released featuring updated cover versions of Carmody's songs. To promote the album, Electric Fields were joined virtually by Jessica Mauboy, Missy Higgins and John Butler for a performance of "From Little Things Big Things Grow", recorded at the Adelaide Botanic Garden conservatory and broadcast for the season finale of ABC Television's 6-part pandemic series, The Sound, on 23 August 2020. The cover features on Cannot Buy My Soul: The Songs of Kev Carmody, released on 21 August 2020, which includes covers of other Carmody songs by artists such as Jimmy Barnes, Courtney Barnett, and Kate Miller-Heidke. [35] Carmody has reduced his musical activities due to the effects of arthritis. [8] [10]

Awards and nominations

ARIA Awards

The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987. In 2009, Kev Carmody was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame. [30] [31] [32] [34]

YearNominee / workAwardResult
1989 Pillars of SocietyBest Indigenous ReleaseNominated
1992 Eulogy (For a Black Person)Best Indigenous ReleaseNominated
1993 Street BeatBest Indigenous ReleaseNominated
1994 BloodlinesBest Indigenous ReleaseNominated
1995 "On The Wire"Best Indigenous ReleaseNominated
1996 Images & IllusionsBest Indigenous ReleaseNominated
2009 Kev Carmody ARIA Hall of Fame inductee
2016 Recollections... Reflections... (A Journey)Best Blues & Roots AlbumNominated

Country Music Awards of Australia

The Country Music Awards of Australia (CMAA) (also known as the Golden Guitar Awards) is an annual awards night held in January during the Tamworth Country Music Festival, celebrating recording excellence in the Australian country music industry. They have been held annually since 1973. [36]

YearNominee / workAwardResult
1993"From Little Things, Big Things Grow"Heritage AwardWon
2012"Children of the Gurindji" by Sara Storer & Kev CarmodyVideo of the YearWon

Deadly Awards

The Deadlys Awards was an annual celebration of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievement in music, sport, entertainment and community.

YearNominee / workAwardResult
Deadly Awards 2005 himselfLifetime Achievement in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Musicawarded

Helpmann Awards

The Helpmann Awards is an awards show, celebrating live entertainment and performing arts in Australia, presented by industry group Live Performance Australia (LPA) since 2001. [37] In 2019, Carmody received the JC Williamson Award, the LPA's highest honour, for their life's work in live performance. [38] [39]

YearNominee / workAwardResult
2019 Kev Carmody JC Williamson Award awarded

Mo Awards

The Australian Entertainment Mo Awards (commonly known informally as the Mo Awards), were annual Australian entertainment industry awards. They recognise achievements in live entertainment in Australia from 1975 to 2016. Kev Carmody won one award in that time. [40]

YearNominee / workAwardResult (wins only)
1993Kev CarmodyFolk Performer of the YearWon

National Indigenous Music Awards

The National Indigenous Music Awards recognise excellence, innovation and leadership among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musicians from throughout Australia. They commenced in 2004. [41] [42]

YearNominee / workAwardResult
2021 Kev CarmodyHall of Fameinductee

Queensland Music Awards

The Queensland Music Awards (previously known as Q Song Awards) are annual awards celebrating Queensland, Australia's brightest emerging artists and established legends. They commenced in 2006. [43]

YearNominee / workAwardResult (wins only)
2007 [44] [45] himselfGrant McLennan Lifetime Achievement Awardawarded

Other recognition and honours

Discography

Studio albums

TitleDetails
Pillars of Society
  • Released: December 1988
  • Label: Rutabagas
  • Formats: LP, Cassette, CD
Eulogy (For a Black Person)
  • Released: November 1990
  • Label: Festival Records
  • Formats: CD, Cassette
Bloodlines
  • Released: July 1993 [51]
  • Label: Festival Records
  • Formats: CD, Cassette
Images and Illusions
  • Released: September 1995
  • Label: Festival Records
  • Formats: CD
Mirrors
  • Released: May 2003
  • Label: Song Cycles
  • Formats: CD, DD

Soundtrack albums

TitleDetails
One Night the Moon
(with Paul Kelly & Mairead Hannan)
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: MusicArtsDanceFilms
  • Formats: CD, DD

Compilation albums

TitleDetails
Messages
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: Song Cycles
  • Formats: CD
Cannot Buy My Soul: The Songs of Kev Carmody
  • Released: February 2007
  • Label: Virgin / EMI
  • Formats: 2xCD, DD
Recollections... Reflections... (A Journey)
  • Released: 30 October 2015
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: 4xCD, DD

Extended plays

TitleDetails
Street Beat
  • Released: December 1992
  • Label: Festival Records
  • Formats: CD

Singles

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paul Kelly (Australian musician)</span> Australian musician

Paul Maurice Kelly is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter and guitarist. He has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and the Messengers. He has worked with other artists and groups, including associated projects Professor Ratbaggy and Stardust Five. Kelly's music style has ranged from bluegrass to studio-oriented dub reggae, but his core output straddles folk, rock and country. His lyrics capture the vastness of the culture and landscape of Australia by chronicling life about him for over 30 years. David Fricke from Rolling Stone calls Kelly "one of the finest songwriters I have ever heard, Australian or otherwise". Kelly has said, "Song writing is mysterious to me. I still feel like a total beginner. I don't feel like I have got it nailed yet."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sara Storer</span> Musical artist

Sara Bettine Storer is an Australian country music singer-songwriter and former teacher. She won a record breaking seven Golden Guitar awards in the Tamworth Country Music Festival in January 2004, and as of 2017, she has won 21 in total. Three of her six studio albums have reached the top 30 on the ARIA Albums Chart, Firefly, Lovegrass and Silos. Silos also won Best Country Album at the ARIA Music Awards of 2016. Storer has been a member of a country music trio, Songbirds (2007–09) alongside Beccy Cole and Gina Jeffries. Her older brother, Greg Storer, is also a country music singer-songwriter and the siblings have recorded and performed together.

<i>Comedy</i> (Paul Kelly & The Messengers album) 1991 studio album by Paul Kelly & The Messengers

Comedy is a double album recorded by Paul Kelly & the Messengers and originally released in 1991. It peaked at No. 12 on the ARIA Albums Chart and remained in the top 50 for 12 weeks. Comedy reached the top 30 on the New Zealand Albums Chart.

<i>Hidden Things</i> 1992 studio album by Paul Kelly & the Messengers

Hidden Things is an album by Australian folk rock group Paul Kelly & the Messengers released in March 1992 on Mushroom Records, which reached No. 29 on the ARIA Albums Chart. It also reached the Top 40 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. It is a collection of tracks recorded by Kelly and both his backing bands, the Coloured Girls and the Messengers, from 1986 to 1991, but were not issued on previous studio albums. The album spawned a single, "When I First Met Your Ma", which was released in March. Messenger band members provide lead vocals on "Hard Times" from its writer Steve Connolly, "Rock 'n' Soul" from its writer Jon Schofield. "Sweet Guy Waltz" is a slower version of "Sweet Guy" which was on 1989's So Much Water So Close to Home. The album was re-released in 2011 as Hidden Things: B-sides & Rarities.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Butler (musician)</span> Australian American musician, songwriter, record label owner and producer

John Charles Wiltshire-Butler, professionally known as John Butler, is an American-Australian singer, songwriter, and music producer. He is the front man for the John Butler Trio, a roots and jam band that formed in Fremantle, Western Australia, in 1998.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Archie Roach</span> Aboriginal Australian musician and elder (1956–2022)

Archibald William Roach was an Australian singer, songwriter and Aboriginal activist. Often referred to as "Uncle Archie", Roach was a Gunditjmara and Bundjalung elder who campaigned for the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. His wife and musical partner was the singer Ruby Hunter (1955–2010).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jimmy Little</span> Australian Aboriginal musician (1937–2012)

James Oswald Little, AO was an Australian Aboriginal musician, actor and teacher, who was a member of the Yorta Yorta tribe and was raised on the Cummeragunja Reserve, New South Wales.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vincent Lingiari</span> Aboriginal Australian rights activist who led the Wave Hill walk-off from 1967 to 1975

Vincent Lingiari was an Australian Aboriginal rights activist and member of the Gurindji people. In his early life he started as a stockman at Wave Hill Station, where the Aboriginal workers were given no more than rations, tobacco and clothing as their payment. After the owners of the station refused to improve pay and working conditions at the cattle station and hand back some of Gurindji land, Lingiari was elected and became the leader of the workers in August 1966. He led his people in the Wave Hill walk-off, also known as the Gurindji strike.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Troy Cassar-Daley</span> Australian musician

Troy Cassar-Daley is an Australian country music songwriter and entertainer.

<i>One Night the Moon</i> 2001 film by Rachel Perkins

One Night the Moon is a 2001 Australian musical non-feature film starring husband and wife team Paul Kelly, a singer-songwriter, and Kaarin Fairfax, a film and television actress, along with their daughter Memphis Kelly. The film was directed by Rachel Perkins and co-written by Perkins with John Romeril. In 2009 Romeril adapted the script as a musical theatre work.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">From Little Things Big Things Grow</span> 1993 song by Paul Kelly & The Messengers

"From Little Things Big Things Grow" is a protest song recorded by Australian artists Paul Kelly & The Messengers on their 1991 album Comedy, and by Kev Carmody on his 1993 album Bloodlines. It was released as a CD single by Carmody and Kelly in 1993 but failed to chart. The song was co-written by Kelly and Carmody, and is based on the story of the Gurindji strike and Vincent Lingiari as part of the Indigenous people's struggle for land rights in Australia and reconciliation.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Missy Higgins</span> Australian musician

Melissa Morrison Higgins, known professionally as Missy Higgins, is an Australian singer-songwriter and musician. Her Australian number-one albums are The Sound of White (2004), On a Clear Night (2007) and The Ol' Razzle Dazzle (2012), and her singles include "Scar", "Steer" and "Where I Stood". Higgins was nominated for five ARIA Music Awards in 2004 and won 'Best Pop Release' for "Scar". In 2005, she was nominated for seven more awards and won five. Higgins won her seventh ARIA in 2007. Her third album, The Ol' Razzle Dazzle, was released in Australia in June 2012. As of August 2014, Higgins' first three studio albums had sold over one million units.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Urthboy</span> Musical artist

Tim Levinson, better known by the stage name Urthboy, is an Australian hip hop MC and producer from New South Wales. He is widely known for his solo music under the moniker Urthboy, as a founding member of the hip-hop group The Herd, and for co-founding and managing the Elefant Traks record label. Levinson has released five solo albums: Distant Sense of Random Menace (2004), The Signal (2007), Spitshine (2009), Smokey's Haunt (2012) and The Past Beats Inside Me Like a Second Heartbeat (2016); as well as five studio albums with The Herd.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dan Sultan</span> Indigenous Australian singer

Daniel Leo Sultan is an Australian alternative rock singer-songwriter and guitarist, actor and author. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2010 he won Best Male Artist and Best Blues & Roots Album for his second album, Get Out While You Can. At the 2014 ceremony he won Best Rock Album for Blackbird, which had reached number four on the ARIA Albums Chart. In 2017, Sultan's record Killer was nominated for three ARIA awards: Best Male Artist, Best Rock Album, and Best Independent Release. Sultan's debut children's music album Nali & Friends was named Best Children's Album at the ARIA Music Awards of 2019.

<i>Cannot Buy My Soul</i> 2007 compilation album tribute by Various artists

Cannot Buy My Soul: The Songs of Kev Carmody, or more simply Cannot Buy My Soul, is a 2007 double-CD compilation tribute album featuring various artists performing tracks by Australian singer-songwriter Kev Carmody. They were brought together by rock musician, Paul Kelly, who also performs on a track. Artists include Dan Kelly, the John Butler Trio, the Waifs and Clare Bowditch.

David Leha, known professionally as Radical Son, is a Kamilaroi and Tongan singer. He was part of the GetUp Mob, which released a cover version of "From Little Things Big Things Grow" in May 2008 – it reached No. 4 on the ARIA Singles Chart. Other members of the temporary group were the song's writers Kev Carmody and Paul Kelly together with Urthboy, Missy Higgins, Mia Dyson, Jane Tyrrell, Dan Sultan, Joel Wenitong and Ozi Batla.

Our Home, Our Land is a compilation album released in Australia by CAAMA in 1995. It was released to celebrate the victory in the Mabo case. It focused on the importance of land to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander beliefs. It was nominated for a 1996 ARIA Award for Best Indigenous Release.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Electric Fields</span> Electric-soul duo from Adelaide, South Australia

Electric Fields is an Aboriginal Australian electronic music duo made up of vocalist Zaachariaha Fielding and keyboard player and producer Michael Ross. Electric Fields combine modern electric-soul music with Aboriginal culture and sing in Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and English. The duo have released an EP and several singles.

The National Indigenous Music Awards 2017 are the 14th annual National Indigenous Music Awards.

References

  1. ↑ ""On the Wire" at APRA search engine". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Archived from the original on 3 April 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2009.
  2. ↑ Sargent, S. (2016). Indigenous Rights: Changes and Challenges in the 21st Century. Legend Press. p. 140. ISBN   978-1-78955-131-0 . Retrieved 9 July 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Calcino, Chris (28 June 2022). "Indigenous songwriter Kev Carmody opens up about his secret stolen childhood". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved 9 July 2022.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 McFarlane, Ian (1999). "Encyclopedia entry for 'Kev Carmody'". Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop . St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin. ISBN   1-86508-072-1. Archived from the original on 23 August 2004. Retrieved 17 August 2009.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Talking Heads with Peter Thompson (Kev Carmody)". ABC Television (ABC-TV). 21 May 2007. Archived from the original on 29 July 2009. Retrieved 30 July 2009.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Kevin Carmody". Music Australia. National Library of Australia. 10 August 2004. Archived from the original on 5 June 2009. Retrieved 19 August 2009.
  7. 1 2 Vanadewetering, Jodie (23 May 2008). "Indigenous Stories - Local Heroes (Kev Carmody)". ABC Television (ABC TV). Archived from the original on 22 July 2009. Retrieved 30 July 2009.
  8. 1 2 3 4 Jordan, Seth. "Kev Carmody - holding up society's mirror". Diaspora World Beat. D-Star Media. Archived from the original on 16 April 2009. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
  9. 1 2 3 "Kev Carmody receives Honorary Degree of Doctor". University of Southern Queensland. Archived from the original on 25 July 2008. Retrieved 8 October 2008.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nimmervoll, Ed. "Kev Carmody". Howlspace – The Living History of Our Music (Ed Nimmervoll). Archived from the original on 26 January 2008. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  11. 1 2 "An interview with Kev Carmody". Guerilla Snorefare. 17 July 2008. Archived from the original on 8 July 2011. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
  12. 1 2 3 Mengel, Noel (17 February 2007). "Why Kev Carmody rules, OK". The Courier-Mail . News Corporation. Archived from the original on 8 March 2007. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
  13. ↑ "Blood Brothers - From Little Things Big Things Grow - Clip 3:Singing History". National Screen. National Film & Sound Archive. Archived from the original on 25 September 2009. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
  14. ↑ "Steve Connolly". Australian Rock Database . Magnus Holmgren. Archived from the original on 9 March 2008. Retrieved 19 August 2009.
  15. ↑ "Aboriginal-Police Relations in Redfern: with special reference to the 'Police Raid' of 8 February 1990". National Inquiry into Racist Violence. Australian Human Rights Commission. May 1990. Archived from the original on 21 September 2009. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
  16. ↑ "Kev Carmody Biography". Kev Carmody. Archived from the original on 13 October 2009. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
  17. 1 2 Wright, dave (15 April 1992). "Kev Carmody launches new single". Green Left. Archived from the original on 27 November 2012. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
  18. ↑ ""From Little Things Big Things Grow" at APRA search engine". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Archived from the original on 3 April 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2009.
  19. ↑ "Blood Brothers - From Little Things Big Things Grow". Australian Screen. National Screen and Sound Archive. Archived from the original on 15 September 2009. Retrieved 18 August 2009.
  20. ↑ "Steve Kilbey". Australian Rock Database. Magnus Holmgren. Archived from the original on 29 September 2012. Retrieved 19 August 2009.
  21. ↑ Deming, Mark. "One Night the Moon Production Credits". allmovie . Retrieved 2 October 2008.
  22. ↑ "One Night the Moon: Original Soundtrack". BigPond. Archived from the original on 6 May 2008. Retrieved 2 October 2008.
  23. ↑ "One Night the Moon (2001) - Awards". Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Archived from the original on 27 March 2005. Retrieved 2 October 2008.
  24. ↑ "Cannot Buy My Soul - The Songs of Kev Carmody". Australian Rock Database. Magnus Holmgren. Archived from the original on 29 September 2012. Retrieved 19 August 2009.
  25. ↑ "MAX Sessions - Powderfinger: A Concert for the Cure". Concert for the Cure. Archived from the original on 12 September 2009. Retrieved 21 August 2001.
  26. ↑ "Powderfinger, Missy Higgins, join forces". Ninemsn.com.au. Nine News. 31 October 2007. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2009.
  27. ↑ Edwards, Anna (22 April 2008). "Single samples Rudd, Keating". The Courier-Mail. News Corporation. Archived from the original on 18 June 2008. Retrieved 20 August 2008.
  28. ↑ "The GetUp Mob - From Little Things Big Things Grow". Australian Charts Portal. Archived from the original on 10 March 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2009.
  29. ↑ "Cannot Buy My Soul: Kev Carmody". SBS Shop. SBS. Archived from the original on 6 January 2010. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
  30. 1 2 "ARIA 2009 Hall of Fame announcement of inductees" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). 17 July 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 September 2009. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
  31. 1 2 Cashmere, Paul (18 July 2009). "Mental As Anything, John Paul Young head to the Hall of Fame". Undercover.com.au. Cashmere Media Pty Ltd. Archived from the original on 19 July 2009. Retrieved 19 July 2009.
  32. 1 2 Collins, Simon (19 July 2009). "Love is in the Air at the ARIA Hall of Fame". The West Australian. West Australian Newspapers Limited. Archived from the original on 21 April 2009. Retrieved 19 July 2009.
  33. ↑ Mengel, Noel (17 July 2009). "Kev Carmody to be inducted into ARIA Hall of Fame". The Courier-Mail. News Corporation. Archived from the original on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 19 August 2009.
  34. 1 2 3 Adams, Cameron (27 August 2009). "ARIA Award may heal Mental as Anything rift". Herald Sun . News Corporation. Archived from the original on 30 August 2009. Retrieved 28 August 2009.
  35. ↑ Triscari, Caleb (24 August 2020). "Electric Fields, Missy Higgins and more cover Paul Kelly for 'The Sound'". NME. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
  36. ↑ "Past Award Winners" . Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  37. ↑ "Events & Programs". Live Performance Australia. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  38. ↑ "2019 Helpmann Awards Act II presented". Limelight. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  39. ↑ Bremer, Rudi; Carey, Patrick (21 July 2019). "Kev Carmody accepts his Helpmann Award for Lifetime Achievement on behalf of 'our ancient oral culture'". ABC news. ABC arts. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
  40. ↑ "MO Award Winners". Mo Awards. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
  41. ↑ "2014 Winners - National Indigenous Music Awards". Musicnt.com.au. Archived from the original on 25 February 2017. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  42. ↑ "The Kid LAROI, JK-47 lead National Indigenous Music Award winners". ABC. 14 November 2021. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  43. ↑ "About the Queensland Music Awards". Queensland Music Awards. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  44. ↑ "Emma Louise Lobb". Sounds of Oz. 15 August 2007. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  45. ↑ "Past Winners 2007". Queensland Music Awards. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  46. ↑ "Uni to award Carmody honorary doctorate". Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). 30 April 2008. Retrieved 30 July 2009.
  47. ↑ "2009 Queensland Greats recipients". Queensland Government. Archived from the original on 31 May 2017. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
  48. ↑ Earley, David (12 June 2009). "Singer Kev Carmody named as a Queensland Great". The Courier-Mail. News Corporation. Archived from the original on 9 September 2012. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
  49. ↑ "Overview From Little Things Big Things Grow (1993)". Australian Screen Online . Retrieved 9 July 2022.
  50. ↑ "Indigenous Community Impact Award". Archived from the original on 18 October 2014.
  51. ↑ "Kev Carmody - Discography - Aboriginal music". Archived from the original on 25 October 2013. Retrieved 16 March 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

Further reading


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.