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Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu - NAIDOC Week

Jul 1, 2010 Updated Jul 2, 2010

In celebration of NAIDOC Week, ABC Dig Music brings you a special selection of music from some of Australia's greatest indigenous musicians.

Listen out on your digital radio, online and via your digital set top box for tunes from Jimmy Little, Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Yothu Yindi, Perry Keyes, Dan Sultan, Tiddas, Warrumpi Band, Stiff Gins and many more.

NAIDOC Week is held around Australia in July each year to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NAIDOC Week 2010 happens from July 4 - 11.

To find out more about how ABC Radio is celebrating NAIDOC Week, visit the ABC Radio website.

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Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu (born 1970) is an Indigenous Australian musician, who sings in the Yolngu language. He was born in Galiwin'ku, off the coast of Arnhem Land, Northern Australia about 580 kilometres from Darwin. He is from the Gumatj clan of the Yolngu and his mother from the Galpu nation. He was born blind, has never learned Braille and does not have a guide dog or use a white cane....

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