Yunupingu biography

Indigenous Australian musician

"Gurrumul" redirects here. For other uses, see Gurrumul (disambiguation).

Musical artist

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu (22 January 1971 – 25 July 2017), commonly known as Gurrumul and also referred to since his death as Dr G.

Yunupingu,^{[note 1][5][6][7]} was a YolŋuAboriginal Australian musician.^[8] A multi-instrumentalist, he played drums, keyboards, guitar (a right-hand-strung guitar played left-handed) and didgeridoo, but it was the clarity of his singing voice that attracted rave reviews.

He sang stories of his land both in Yolŋu languages such as Gaalpu, Gumatj or Djambarrpuynu, a dialect related to Gumatj, and in English.^[8][9] He began his career as a member of Yothu Yindi and later Saltwater Band, and his solo career brought him wider acclaim^[8] He was the most commercially successful Aboriginal Australian musician at the time of Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu - National Portrait Gallery people KUHEH