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Chris Robinson / About This Artist

Artist Details and Stats:

Hometown: Universe City, NSW, AU

Label: Breakaway Publishing (in Australia), musicARTstar (online), APRA/AMCOS member

Management: A White Dingo

Website: www.myspace.com

Sounds Like: The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Whoever You Like, Madonna

Genre: Alternative

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Alternative charts for Universe City, NSW, AU
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Biography:

1983 album The Journey 10 original songs
1984 wrote The Entrepreneur Card Game
1988 composed 21 song Rock Musical 1788 a Bicentennial Project
1991 composed Stories Songs and Seasons 21 songs
1993 The Musical produced as educational kit for all australian schools. Now reproduced as WHEN THE SKY FELL DOWN resource files and album.
1996 Special Mix CD version of 1788 The Great South Land released to accompany nation wide school shows.
1997 reconciliation award at the convention in Canberra & subject of a video provided to all NSW schools Nothings Going to Stop Our Dream.
2000 - 2006 various remixes co-writing & recording
2008 WSFD and work with new artists

Press:

“a major contribution to Aboriginal Reconciliation, both through the power and artistry of its music and through the drama and education activities telling the real story of the 'settlement' of Australia. I commend 1788:[WSFD] as both excellent entertainment and a really effective education resource.”
Nigel Parbury - AECG Research Officer Review

“MUSICAL KEY TO HISTORY”
Educational Resources - Daily Telegraph (Australia)

“I support this creative initiative, ... Yours in Music Education”
Mandawuy Yunupingu - Yothu Yindi endorsement

“The New South Wales Aboriginal Education Consultative Group Incorporated (NSW AECG Inc) is pleased to endorse the school musical education kit 1788: The Great South Land and fully recommends this resource for use in Aboriginal Education at all levels.”
Linda Burney (as president of the NSW AECG Inc - Letter of Endorsement from project collaborators: NSW AECG Inc

“... the Council endorses your kit as a useful and constructive educational tool for reaching young people about the wide range of issues arising from the arrival of British colonists in 1788 and their interaction with indigenous communities ...”
Patrick Dodson - Chairperson - Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (re:1788WSFD)