Archie Roach

Singer/Songwriter

Archie Roach is one of Australia’s best loved Indigenous artists having touched the hearts and minds of audiences everywhere.

Archie is a singer, songwriter, poet and story teller of international renown. Charcoal Lane, his 1990 debut album, was a landmark release winning ARIA awards for Best Indigenous Album and Best New Talent – US Rolling Stone named Charcoal Lane as one of their Top 50 albums for 1992. The song Took The Children Away also saw Archie receive the Human Rights Achievement Award – the first time the award was ever presented to a songwriter.

Since then Archie has released three albums Jamu Dreaming (1993), Looking for Butter Boy(1997) and Sensual Being (2002), winning critical acclaim and numerous awards.

His film credits include Land Of The Little Kings, which earned Archie his second Human Rights Achievement Award, and Rolf de Heer’s award-winning The Tracker.

In 2003 Archie, alongside late wife Ruby Hunter, began a collaboration with the Australian Art Orchestra, creating two hugely successful shows: Ruby’s Story and Kura Tungar: River Songs and Stories. Archie and Ruby also appeared as special guest in Passion for which the AAO and the duo toured to Mexico for the Festival de Mexico Centro Historico in 2005.