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WOMADELAIDE 2001
program highlights
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Jimmy Little (Australia) |
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in Australia for over forty years, his first hit record was in 1964, the
same year in which he was named Pop Star of the Year. He has recorded over
thirty albums and appeared in several high profile movies with directors
such as Wim Wenders and Tracey Moffatt. In 1989 Jimmy was named Aboriginal
of the Year and was inducted into The Country Music Roll of Renown in 1994.
For his most recent album ‘Messenger’ Jimmy won the ARIA Adult Contemporary
Album of the Year in 1999, and was also inducted into the ARIA Hall of
Fame that year. Jimmy has just returned from his first trip to the Northern
Hemisphere where he appeared at several WOMAD concerts including Hanover,
the Globe Theatre London, Rivermead Reading and Marymoor Park, Seattle
USA and Fort Canning Park, Singapore. |
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