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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Helen Davidson

Gurrumul wins Australia's most prestigious music prize

Gurrumul Yunupingu’s album was described by Dave Faulkner as ‘a statement, a message, a story that adds an artist’s voice to our nation’s cultural fabric’
Gurrumul Yunupingu’s album Djarimirri was described as ‘a story that adds an artist’s voice to our nation’s cultural fabric’. Photograph: Universal Music Australia

The award-winning streak for Gurrumul Yunupingu’s posthumously released album continued on Thursday, with the announcement it had been awarded the prestigious Australian Music Prize (AMP).

Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow) took four years to record, and was completed just weeks before the musician’s death in July 2017 after a long battle with kidney and liver disease.

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