David Hudson (musician)

David Hudson
Birth name David Charles Hudson
Born ca. 1962
Origin Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Genres Country, folk
Occupation(s) Entertainer, musician, artist
Instruments Didgeridoo, vocals
Years active 1985–present
Labels Celestial Harmonies, Indigenous Australia, Australian Sun
Website davidhudson.com.au

David Charles Hudson is an Australian Aboriginal musician, entertainer and artist. Hudson is a multi-instrumentalist and was taught to play traditional didgeridoo from an early age. He also plays guitar, kit drums, percussion. He plays traditional music, as well as more ambient music, country-folk, rock, and new age.

Biography

David Charles Hudson was born in the early 1960s as a Tjapukai tribesman and is a descendant of the Ewamian-Western Yalanji peoples of the Cairns region.[1] He explained "I grew up in a household with uncles and aunts who painted and carved. I was taught traditional stories, so I was painting stories, and I learned what this line represents and this dot represents."[2] He was also taught to play traditional didgeridoo. Hudson finished secondary schooling in 1979, then he attended a teachers' college and was qualified as a recreation officer.[2] According to Hudson "the majority of indigenous teenagers left school in year 10 and followed their fathers and grandfathers to work on railways, in construction or on cane fields."[3]

In 1987 Hudson, Cindy Judd and a United States couple, Don and Judy Freeman, established the Tjapukai Dance Theatre and the related Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park in Kuranda.[2][4] Hudson, as a dancer and musician, toured with Greek-American musician, Yanni, from 1996 to 2005 and appears on the artist's albums, Tribute (November 1997), Ethnicity (February 2003) and Yanni Live! The Concert Event (August 2006).[5] From 1997 to 2012 Hudson was General Manager of Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park.[3]

Discography

Credits: [1][8]

References

  1. 1 2 Bush, John. "David Hudson". AllMusic. All Media Guide. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 Carter, Denise (30 January 2015). "David Hudson is a musician, artist, actor and presenter on the world stage but still calls Cairns home". The Cairns Post. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Indigenous Tourism". Skyrail News. Skyrail Rainforest Cableway. February 2012. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  4. ↑ Reid, Paul (12 August 1990). "Tribal Name and Pride Find an Outlet on Stage". The Canberra Times. 64 (20,211): 24. Retrieved 3 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ Greene, Paul D.; Porcello, Thomas (2010). Wired for Sound: Engineering and Technologies in Sonic Cultures: Music Culture. Wesleyan University Press. pp. 86–89, 95–100. ISBN 978-0-81957-062-8.
  6. ↑ Hudson, David (1994), Rainbow serpent : music for didgeridoo & percussion, Celestial Harmonies, retrieved 4 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia Note: Recorded at the Timeroom (Tucson, Arizona); bush sounds recorded in Laura, Queensland.
  7. ↑ Hudson, David (2006), The very best of David Hudson, Indigenous Australia, retrieved 4 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia Note: Previously released material. "The very best of Australia's world music rhythms" – Container. "Musical stories from this multi platinum world music artist" – Container.
  8. ↑ "David Hudson – Discography". Creative Spirits. Archived from the original on 15 December 2012. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
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