{"id":37947,"date":"2018-04-22T03:40:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T01:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/04\/22\/gurrumuls-album-djarimirri-is-first-indigenous-language-chart-topper\/"},"modified":"2018-04-22T03:40:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T01:40:27","slug":"gurrumuls-album-djarimirri-is-first-indigenous-language-chart-topper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=37947","title":{"rendered":"Gurrumul\u2019s album Djarimirri is first Indigenous-language chart-topper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posthumous record becomes first Indigenous-language release to reach No 1 in Australia\u2019s Aria album charts \u2022 Sign up to receive the top stories in Australia every day at noonGeoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu\u2019s \u201cfinal message\u201d has echoed from his beloved Yolngu country to the top of the Australian music charts \u2013 his posthumous final album now the first Indigenous-language release to be the nation\u2019s bestselling album.The album, Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow), a selection of songs recorded over more than four years, was released nine months after Gurrumul\u2019s death.Gurrumul\u2019s daughter Jasmine Yunupingu paid tribute to her father\u2019s achievement. \u201cI would like to give a speech on behalf of my family and myself, to my father\u2019s achievement that he has had a great career,\u201d she said. \u201cFor sharing our culture through his music. That he will remain in our hearts together.\u201d Related: \u2018We underestimated Gurrumul\u2019: an unlikely career on the edge of two worlds Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2018\/apr\/22\/gurrumuls-album-djarimirri-is-first-indigenous-language-chart-topper\" target=\"_blank\">Gurrumul\u2019s album Djarimirri is first Indigenous-language chart-topper<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posthumous record becomes first Indigenous-language release to reach No 1 in Australia\u2019s Aria album charts \u2022 Sign up to receive the top stories in Australia every day at noonGeoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu\u2019s \u201cfinal message\u201d has echoed from his beloved Yolngu country to the top of the Australian music charts \u2013 his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}