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Ruby (with Archie Roach and Paul Grabowsky ) Outstanding Contribution to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Music The Deadly Awards, commonly known simply as The Deadlys, was an annual celebration of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievement in music, sport, entertainment and community. The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. Label: Australian Art Orchestra (AAO16)Īwards ARIA Music Awards.(with Archie Roach, Australian Art Orchestra & Paul Grabowsky) The foundation is dedicated to creating opportunities for Aboriginal people through the promotion, celebration and support of Aboriginal arts and culture. Her partner Archie Roach established "Ruby's Foundation" to help continue her legacy. Hunter died of a heart attack on 17 February 2010, aged 54. They later had two sons and fostered three children. Thereafter Ruby lived in institutions and foster care, as one of the Stolen Generations, before drifting to Adelaide, staying for a spell at the Salvation Army's " People's Palace", where she met Roach. One day, Wally was taken off the street by government officials, and then the men took the rest of the children from their home, under the pretext that they were being taken to the circus. Personal life Īs a child, Hunter lived with her brothers, Wally, Jeffrey and Robert, and sister Iris, with their grandmother and grandfather at the Aboriginal reserve at Point McLeay (later called Raukkan) on Lake Alexandrina in the Coorong region of South Australia. With Hunter and Conway were Sara Storer, Katie Noonan and Clare Bowditch. In 2005, Hunter was invited by Deborah Conway to take part in the Broad Festival project, with three other Australian female artists, where they performed their own and each other's songs. Many of the songs were written through song writing and music workshops held by Hunter and Roach with children across Cape York in Queensland.
Hunter was the author of Butcher paper, texta, black board and chalk, a children's song-book which features Aboriginal songs about land, health and life. Īt the 2020 National Indigenous Music Awards, Hunter was inducted into its Hall of Fame. With Roach and Paul Grabowsky, she wrote and performed the concert "Ruby's Story", which tells her life story through song and spoken word. She made her acting debut in One Night the Moon. In 1994, Hunter became the first Indigenous Australian woman to record a solo "rock" album, and the first Aboriginal woman signed to a major record label, when she released her debut album Thoughts Within. In 1990, she wrote the autobiographical " Down City Streets", which was performed by Roach on his debut solo album Charcoal Lane. Hunter first performed in public in 1988 during a festival at Bondi Pavilion in Sydney, where she performed "Proud, Proud Woman," the first song she had written. Born near the mouth of the Murray River in the Coorong region of South Australia, Hunter was forcibly taken from her family at the age of eight as part of the Stolen Generation.
She was a Ngarrindjeri woman, who often performed with her partner, Archie Roach AM, whom she met at the age of 16, while both were homeless teenagers. Ruby Charlotte Margaret Hunter (31 October 1955 – 17 February 2010) was an Aboriginal Australian singer, songwriter and guitarist.