Instruments Guitar Record label Wantok Musik | Name Frank Yamma Labels Wantok Musik | |
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Role Musician ยท facebook.com/frankyamma Albums Uncle, Playing With Fire - Warungku Inkanyi, Countryman Similar People David Bridie, Emma Donovan, Warren H Williams, Radical Son, George Telek | ||
Associated acts David Bridie, Isaac Yamma |
Frank yamma everybody s talking
Frank Yamma (fl. c. 2000) is an Australian musician.
Contents
- Frank yamma everybody s talking
- Declan kelly presents dieseln dub beds are burning featuring frank yamma pat powell
- Discography
- References
Frank is a singer and songwriter from Central Australia and is a Pitjantjatjara man who speaks 5 languages and sings in both Pitjantjatjara and English. He is the son of Issac Yamma, an early proponent of singing Western style songs in traditional language.
Frank's style of music is Indigenous Roots (World Music) and he writes about his country and his people. He has performed in bands Ulpanyali Band, Digital Dreaming, Terrasphere, Piranpa ('skinny white lizards' in Pitjantjatjara) and his father's Pitjantjatjara Country Band. He currently performs mainly solo or accompanied by David Bridie on piano and Helen Mountfort on cello.
Frank Yamma & Piranpa won a Deadly in 1999 for their album Playing with Fire. In 2005, with David Bridie, he won AGSC Screen Music Award for Best Original Song Composed for a Feature Film, Telemovie, TV Series or Mini-Series
Yamma recorded a set for TripleJ's Live at the Wireless that was broadcast on 19 February 2001. He has had multiple live performances broadcast on Radio National's Live on Stage series. He was a featured artist of the ABC TV show Sending a message : Naidoc concert.
Declan kelly presents dieseln dub beds are burning featuring frank yamma pat powell
Discography
Frank Yamma & Piranpa
Playing with Fire (1999) - CAAMA Music
Keep up the pace (2006) - CAAMA Music
Frank Yamma
Solid Eagle (1997) - CAAMA Music
Countryman (2010) - Wantok/ Planet
Uncle (2014) - Wantok Musik
Digital Dreaming
Inma Wiru (1999) - Iguana Records
Terrasphere
Terrasphere (1997) - CAAMA Music
Ulpinyali Band
Ulpinyali Band (1989) - CAAMA Music
Corroboration (2001) - Festival Mushroom
Olympic Record (2000) - Warner Music Group
Songlines - Acoustic Sounds (1997)- EMI & ABC Music
Port Fairy Festival (1986) Independent
Wantok Volume 1 (2011) - Wantok Musik/Planet