Mandawuy Yunupingu ist gestorben

Der 1956 geborene Mandawuy Yunupingu (formerly Tom Djambayang Bakamana Yunupingu, skin name Gudjuk, Bild) aus Australien ist am 2. Juni 2013 in Yirrkala in Australiens Northern Territory gestorben. Er wurde berühmt als Frontmann der Aboriginal Band Yothu Yindi, als Sänger, Erzieher und Botschafter seines Volkes.

Foto: Australian Paralympic Committee – Lizenz: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported – Zur Originaldatei: http://en.wikipedia.org

Die australische Premierministerin Julia Gillard beklagte den Verlust eines «einzigartig talentierten Musikers, leidenschaftlichen Anwalts der Aborigines und wahrhaft großartigen Freundes».

http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/yunupingu-der-saenger-von-yothu-yindi-ist-gestorben-a-903407.html

The death of the educator and former singer of Yothu Yindi has taken not just an innovator, community man and a worldwide pop star, but what indigenous country singer Troy Cassar Daley called «a true bridge builder» and Prime Minister Julia Gillard described as »a great Australian voice in the efforts towards reconciliation».

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/yothu-yindi-singer-dies-after-disease-battle-20130603-2nkl8.html#ixzz2VC8taK8g

Mandawuy Yunupingu, an artist, mentor and ambassador who galvanized Australia’s indigenous and non-indigenous people and brought contemporary Aboriginal music to the world through his group Yothu Yindi, has died at the age of 56.

The former Australian of the Year and ARIA Hall of Famer died overnight at his home in Yirrkala in Australia’s Northern Territory.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1565597/yothu-yindis-mandawuy-yunupingu-dies-at-56

Mehr:

http://www.yothuyindi.com/

http://www.abc.net.au/austory/specials/messagemandawuy/default.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandawuy_Yunupingu

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&list=PL314ED6EF9A1160AD&v=S7cbkxn4G8U