Rrurrambu, George

Rrurrambu, George
▪ 2008

      Australian Aboriginal rock musician

born 1957, Galiwinku, N.Terr., Australia

died June 10, 2007, Galiwinku
was the charismatic front man of the popular Warumpi Band, the first Australian rock group to have a hit song in an indigenous language. Rrurrambu and three other men formed the multiracial band in the early 1980s, and it toured throughout Western Australia and the Northern Territory. In 1983 the Warumpi Band released the Luritja-language single “Jailanguru Pakarnu” (“Out from Jail”), which brought it national attention. The group's debut album, Big Name No Blankets (1984), featured the popular song “Blackfella/Whitefella,” and the 1986 follow-up, Go Bush, contained “My Island Home,” which became an unofficial anthem in Australia. The band broke up in 2000, the same year Rrurrambu released his first solo album, Nerbu Message. Following Aboriginal custom he was given the surname Burarrawanga after his death.

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