Adam Plack is an Australian-born didgeridoo player and recording artist. He is originally from Camberwell in Melbourne, but moved to New York City in 1994.
Plack comes from a family of classical musicians. He studied classical violin, piano, guitar, and voice from a young age. He also enjoyed the improvisations on his father's jazz records and eventually turned toward nature sounds for inspiration.[1] He picked up the didgeridoo in the early 1990s, after being inspired by hearing a world beat song by Peter Gabriel and Youssou N'Dour.[2]
Plack has often performed and recorded under the name "Nomad." He has participated in a number of cross-cultural music projects, including the No World Improvisations ensemble (with Jin Hi Kim, Joseph Celli, and Mor Thiam). He has also released several recordings of meditation music with Deepak Chopra, including A Gift of Love (1998), which consists of translations of the poems of Rumi. He has recorded with Johnny "White Ant" Soames, from whom he purchased his first didgeridoo at the crafts fair at St Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne. He has also collaborated with David Gulpilil and other Aboriginal musicians of Arnhem Land, Northern Territory.[1]
Plack's single "With You" reached Number 2 on the Billboard dance charts and won the 2001 ASCAP Dance award.
He is currently writing a children's book.
Plack lives in Baltimore with his wife, actress Sonja Sohn.[3]
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