Bunna Lawrie
(Australia)

Bunna Lawrie declared his black pride in 1984, when his Western Desert band Coloured Stone released Black Boy, a rocking, ground-breaking track which sold 120,000 copies. Bunna is a highly respected elder, songman and storyteller of the Nullabor’s Mirning Aboriginal people and is a whale dreamer songman, medicine man and storyteller.

2011 - National Indigenous Music Awards Hall of Fame (Australia): Coloured Stone for Special Recognition
2000 - Don Banks Music Award for Composers (Australia)
1992 - Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) Award– final Nomination Best Indigenous Record for “Inma Juju”
1990 - ARIA Award – final Nomination Best Indigenous Record for “Wild Desert Rose”
1988 - ARIA Award – final Nomination Best Indigenous Record for “Crazy Mind”
1986 - ARIA Award – Winner, Best Indigenous Album for “Human Love”, award presented by Sir Elton John