Archie Roach, pioneering Indigenous musician, offered hope and solidarity
In 1990, after his bandmate saw Roach perform the song on a local TV station, Kelly booked the singer to open for him at the Melbourne Concert Hall."When the song finished, there was dead silence," Kelly told Double J in 2019. "[Mr Roach] thought that he bombed and just turned and walked off stage.
Took The Children Away became one of the most significant recordings in Australian pop music history and was added to the Sounds of Australia registry at the National Sound and Film Archive in 2013. Roach himself was inducted into theAustralian performer and Boomerang Festival director Rhonda Roberts said when it came to social justice and Indigenous welfare, few people had the reach or influence of Roach.
Roach toured in Australia and overseas with artists including Bob Dylan, Billy Bragg and Leonard Cohen.He continued to make music following his lung cancer diagnoses. In 2010, his wife Ruby died. Later that year, he suffered a stroke, which required a long period of rehabilitation. He had also battled lung cancer and had half a lung removed.
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