Archie Roach
1956-present
Archie Roach is an award-winning musician and singer, songwriter and guitarist. His 1990 album Charcoal Lane won him two ARIA awards (Australian Record Industry Association) and was one of Rolling Stone magazine’s Top 50 albums in 1992. His most famous song, Took The Children Away, draws on his own experience of the Stolen Generation, when Aboriginal Australian children were forcibly taken from their families. The song received a Human Rights Achievement Award, which was the first in its history to be awarded to a songwriter.