If Googoorewon (Goori) Knox had followed in family footsteps, we might be talking to a rising country music star. Instead, the Gamilaroi singer is making his musical theatre debut in one of the biggest shows in recent history – performing the lead role of George Washington in Hamilton when it returns to Sydney in July.
Knox has deep roots in country music. His grandfather is Roger Knox, the “Koori King of Country” and Australia’s “Black Elvis”. His grandmother, on the other side of the family, was Auriel Andrew, a country singer who was the first Aboriginal woman to perform on television “way back in the day”, in the early 1970s on Reg Lindsay’s Country and Western Hour.
