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Yothu Yindi

Australian musical group

Yothu Yindi
Yothu Yindi perform at the Opening Ceremony of the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, Australia
Also known as	Swamp Jockeys (Todd Williams, Michael Wyatt, Cal Williams, Stuart Kellaway, Andrew Beletty) – the Aboriginal members' group was unnamed) Mandawuy Yunupingu, Witiyana Marika, Milkayngu Mununggurr
Origin	Yolngu homelands, Northern Territory, Australia
Genres
Years active	1985–present
Labels	Mushroom, Hollywood
Members	See below
Website	yothuyindi.com.au

Yothu Yindi (Yolngu for "child and mother", pronounced , natively [ju:t̪ujindi]) are an Australian musical group with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal members, formed in 1986 as a merger of two bands formed in 1985 – a white rock group called the Swamp Jockeys (Todd Williams, Michael Wyatt, Cal Williams, Stuart Kellaway, Andrew Bellety), and an unnamed Aboriginal folk group consisting of Mandawuy Yunupingu, Witiyana Marika, and Milkayngu Mununggur. The Aboriginal members came from Yolngu homelands near Yirrkala on the Gove P

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Mandawuy Yunupingu AC

Dr Mandawuy Yunupingu (1956–2013), singer songwriter, was the lead singer of Australia's pre-eminent Aboriginal band, Yothu Yindi. Born in Arnhem Land, Yunupingu trained as a teacher, completing his degree in 1987 and later becoming the first Indigenous Australian to be appointed a school principal. He formed Yothu Yindi in 1986. Combining traditional instruments, songs and sounds with western rock and pop, the band achieved international recognition with their second album Tribal Voice (1991) and specifically with the hit single 'Treaty'.

Co-written with Paul Kelly, 'Treaty' was written as a protest and to raise awareness of the government’s failure to honour then Prime Minister Bob Hawke’s promise to Indigenous Australians, at the Barunga Festival in 1988, of a treaty. It was performed at the launch of the United Nations International Year of Indigenous Peoples; 'Treaty' reached No. 11 on the Australian charts and was voted Song of the Year by the Australian Performing Rights Association.

Yunupingu retired from teaching in 1991 and toured with the band

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M. Yunupingu was born in Arnhem Land and began teaching at the Yirrkala School in his early twenties. He gained a Bachelor of Education in 1987 and subsequently became the first Indigenous Australian to be appointed a school principal. Yunupingu developed a progressive curriculum that incorporated both Western and Aboriginal knowledge traditions. In 1986 he founded the acclaimed Australian band Yothu Yindi, which blended Aboriginal music with Western rock music. The band wrote the hit song ‘Treaty’ to highlight the Hawke Government’s broken promise of a treaty with Aboriginal people. In 1992 Yothu Yindi performed the song in New York to help launch the United Nations’ International Year of the World’s Indigenous People.

Yunupingu was named Australian of the Year for his role in ‘building bridges of understanding between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people.’ He was the second member of his family to receive the honour after his brother Galarrwuy in 1978.