Jimmy Little

Jimmy Little OAM (born 1937) is an Australian Aboriginal musician whose career has spanned six decades. He says his music has been influenced by Nat King Cole and American country music artist Jim Reeves.

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He has been recognised with an Order of Australia Medal, named as a Living National Treasure in 2004 and awarded an honorary doctorate in music as was Peter Sculthorpe. This was in recognition of "Their joint contribution to reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians".

Jimmy Little began teaching and mentoring Indigenous music students at the Eora Centre in Redfern in 1985 and since 2000 he has been a guest lecturer at the Koori Centre, University of Sydney.

In 1999, The ARIA board also inducted Jimmy into the ARIA Australian Music Hall of Fame.

In 2003, he was a guest of the Wiggles on their children's DVD "Wiggly Wiggle World".

Releases

• Royal Telephone, 1963 (Sold more than 75,000 copies - gold record status
• Winterwood, 1972
• Baby Blue, 1974, top ten hit single,
• An Evening with Jimmy Little, 1978, double album set
• ...
• Messenger, 1999, alternative and classic Australian rock songs from the 1980s
  • top ten of the alternative music charts in 1999
  • Track Listing:
    • Down Below (original by The Cruel Sea)
    • Under The Milky Way (original by The Church)
    • The Way I Made You Feel (original by Ed Kuepper)
    • Randwick Bells (original by Paul Kelly)
    • Quasimodo's Dream (original by The Reels)
    • Into Temptation (original by Crowded House)
    • Cattle & Cane (original by The Go-Betweens)
    • (Are You) The One I've Been Waiting For (original by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)
    • Black Fella/White Fella (original by Warumpi Band)
    • Alone With You (original by The Sunnyboys)
    • Bring Yourself Home To Me

• • ARIA award for Adult contemporary album for 1999
• 'Resonate', October 2001
• 'Life's What You Make It', 2007

Other resources

Jimmy Little's Gentle Journey, 2003 a 55 minute video written and directed by Sydney-based film-maker Sean Kennedy, and released by Indigo Films,