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Gurrumul's Australian Story
The program will draw on more than 150 hours of material shot by Skinnyfish Music’s in-house filmmaker Naina Sen, who has been following the Gurrumul story for 3 years, plus interviews with Gurrumul’s family and friends.
The programme airs on Monday October 25th at 8 pm.
Meanwhile, pressure is mounting for Oprah to have Gurrumul guest on her show when she visits Australia in December...if that idea tickles your fancy, then you can join the dedicated Facebook campaign here
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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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Gurrumul's singing is to beautiful for words. What a man. His mun & dad must be so proud.
How old is Gurrumul? Does he have brothers & sisters that can sing?
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