Brothablack

Australian singer

Shannon Narrun Williams, known as Brothablack, is a Sydney-based Indigenous hip hop performer.

Brothablack was a founding member of Deadly Award-winning group South West Syndicate.^[1] He has since gone solo and has worked as an MC for The National Indigenous 3on3 Basketball and Hip Hop Challenge,^[2] performed at the Big Day Out,^[3] and released a solo album More Than A Feeling, an album which is trying to give "non-Indigenous people a good look into an Indigenous males life".^[4] In 2007 he teamed up with Hilltop Hoods to create a song for a campaign by reconcile.org.au highlighting indigenous mortality rates.^[5]

He has received extensive airplay on Triple J^[6] including performing a set for Live at the Wireless, broadcast on 9 July 2007.^[7]

From series 1 to 3, he co-host Move it Mob Style with Naomi Wenitong.

Discography

More Than A Feeling (2007)

References

^ Vibe Deadly Vibe Issue 67 Archived 7 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^ Vibe 3on3 Brothablack Archived 20 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^ 3dworld Big Day Out 2008 - Final Acts Announced^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Vibe Growing Pains - Deadly Vibe Issue 101 July 2005 Archived 7 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^ Daily Telegraph, 30 August 2007, "'Cause we should all get vocal" by Kathy McCabe
^ Brothablack @ J Play
^ Triple J Live Music Archive: sorted by B