Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu è un cantante e chitarrista aborigeno, cieco dalla nascita, negli ultimi tempi stà ottenendo una grande popolarità. Canta in inglese o nella lingua della sua gente, gli aborigeni Yolngu, tipici dell' Arnhem Land orientale. Devo ammettere che mi ha davvero colpito ascoltare queste melodie cantate da una voce tanto particolare, e in una lingua così lontana da noi. Questo insieme di elementi rende davvero affascinante la carica malinconica delle sue canzoni.
Da un articolo de "la Repubblica":
Una vita di stenti. "Sono stato a New York, sono stato a Los Angeles, ma mi mancava la mia isola"; "Sono nato cieco", canta Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, and via a series of litanies accompanied by guitar (just sometimes there is also a bass) on his life difficult by marginalized in society. Tell us what it means to be born in a small island off the north coast of Australia, and most have been blind since birth, tells the stories of creation as well as explains its people. The voice is beautiful and has a stamp all of its own, but unless you're looking for a suitable soundtrack to an incipient depression, the third ballad feel to turn everything off and rely on the return of the leader of the band's most famous rock ' Australia, Peter Garrett of Midnight Oil, cha has stopped singing to go to politics, becoming Minister of Environment.
The success of diversity. Yet Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu has done a bang and not just because everyone has their own taste in music. Together with his previous band, the Yothu Yindi, Aboriginal singers was among the most popular, but nothing that would go beyond the boundaries of Australia. His songs have been broadcast by the BBC in Britain and the New York Times has dealt with him after his first solo album "Gurrumul" broke all records of songs downloaded from iTunes Australia. In early April, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu has sung for the conclusion of the Song Summit in Sydney and at the end of the exhibition there were people who remain without crying (not from sadness, the emotion) and paid tribute ten minute standing ovation.
"My music comes from my people and the aboriginal people - said the singer - and the Aboriginal people have always had a very strong emotional reaction to music."
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