The Deadlys Award winners 1999

Music

• Excellence in Film or Theatrical Score: Tiddas
  Tiddas
  Tiddas are a three piece all-girl folk band from Victoria, Australia.-Biography:Originally the three women, Amy Saunders , Lou Bennett and Sally Dastey combined their vocal talents as backing singers for Aboriginal band Djaambi, led by Saunder's brother Richard Frankland in 1990...
  
   & Alister Jones: My Island Home
  My Island Home
  "My Island Home" is popularly believed to be a song about Australia. However, it was written by Neil Murray and originally performed by his Warumpi Band in reference to their lead singer's home up at Elcho Island off the coast of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory as said by...
  
  
• Outstanding Contribution to Aboriginal Music: Coloured Stone
  Coloured Stone
  Coloured Stone is a band from the Koonibba Mission, west of Ceduna, South Australia. Their sound has been described as having a unique feel and Aboriginal qualities...
  
  
• Most Promising New Talent: Rochelle Watson
  Rochelle Watson
  Rochelle Watson is an Australian R&B and Soul singer. She won the 1999 Deadly award for Most Promising New Talent.-References:...
  
  
• Male Artist of the Year: Jimmy Little
  Jimmy Little
  Jimmy Little AO , is an Australian Aboriginal musician, singer, songwriter and guitarist, whose career has spanned six decades. For many years he was the only Aboriginal star on the Australian music scene...
  
  
• Female Artist of the Year: Leah Purcell
  Leah Purcell
  Leah Purcell is an Australian actor, director and writer.-Biography:She is a film, television and theatre actor, singer, director and playwright. She is the youngest of seven children of Aboriginal and white Australian descent. Her father was a butcher and a boxing trainer...
  
  
• Album Release of the Year: Frank Yamma
  Frank Yamma
  Frank Yamma is an Australian musician.Frank is a singer and song writer from Central Australia and is a Pitjantjatjara man who speaks 5 languages and sings in both Pitjantjatjara and English...
  
   & Piranpa: Playing with Fire
• Band of the Year: Yothu Yindi
  Yothu Yindi
  Yothu Yindi are an Australian band with Aboriginal and balanda members formed in 1986. Aboriginal members come from Yolngu homelands near Yirrkala on the Gove Peninsula in Northern Territory's Arnhem Land...
  
  
• Single Release of the Year: Jimmy Little
  Jimmy Little
  Jimmy Little AO , is an Australian Aboriginal musician, singer, songwriter and guitarist, whose career has spanned six decades. For many years he was the only Aboriginal star on the Australian music scene...
  
  : "The Way You Make Me Feel
  The Way You Make Me Feel
  "The Way You Make Me Feel" is a song by American recording artist Michael Jackson. Released by Epic Records in November 1987, it was the third single from Jackson's seventh studio album Bad. Written and composed by Jackson, and produced by Quincy Jones , the song is credited as being a pop and R&B...
  
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External links

• Deadlys 1999 winners at Vibe
  VIBE
  Vibe is a music and entertainment magazine founded by producer Quincy Jones. The publication predominantly features R&B and hip-hop music artists, actors and other entertainers...
  
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