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"I am not sure of the first time I heard Archie Roach’s music.
Like most Aboriginal people born during or after the 1980s, we grew up
listening to the person we affectionately called Uncle Archie. But there was
one song that spoke to me from the first moment I heard it:
From Paradise.
The song tells the story of a young girl who was taken away from her Country,
the river lands, part of the stolen generations.
While his songs will play loud and long into the future, beneath his music
Uncle Archie gave us something else, something deeply profound but mostly
invisible.
He gave us – and all of Australia – an image of an Aboriginal man, tender and
humble. An image long denied us."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
