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Place of Birth: Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
About Archie Roach
- Archibald William Roach, AM (born 8 January 1956, Mooroopna) is an Australian musician.
- He is a singer, songwriter and guitarist, as well as a campaigner for the rights of Indigenous Australians. Roach's debut solo album, Charcoal Lane, was released in 1990.
- It featured the song "Took the Children Away", which was added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry in 2013. Also in 2013 he won a Deadly Award for Lifetime Contribution to Healing the Stolen Generations as well as for Album of the Year.
- Along with fellow Deadly winner Pat O'Shane, he called for an end to the Northern Territory Intervention.
- Roach has toured around the globe, headlining and opening shows for Joan Armatrading, Bob Dylan, Billy Bragg, Tracy Chapman, Suzanne Vega and Patti Smith.
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