Ruby Hunter RIP

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Pioneering Aboriginal singer-songwriter Ruby Hunter has died.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010 ... 823184.htm

Manager Jill Shelton says Hunter died overnight at home in Victoria's western district.

Born in 1955, Hunter was a member of the Stolen Generations. She was forcibly removed from her family at the age of eight.

A Ngarrindjeri woman from South Australia, Hunter met her lifelong partner and musical soul mate Archie Roach when she was 16 - both were homeless teenagers at the time.

Roach and Hunter have been described as singing/songwriting team of extraordinary spirit.

Their music has taken them around the world. They have sung alongside musical greats Tracy Chapman, Paul Kelly and Bob Dylan.

In an interview with the ABC's Talking Heads in 2008, Hunter revealed her proudest moment was when she finished her first album, Thoughts Within.

"I asked one of my brothers to name this album. He came back, I said: 'So what do you think, brother?' He said: 'Oh, you know what sister? I never knew you had those thoughts within'," she said.

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Wow, this is the first I've heard of this. For a while she was a parent at a school I taught at and boy, in full flight she was, er, interesting.