Wizard of Oz goes deluxe

by Graeme ThomsonMonday, 08 February 2010

Gurrumul: "A different way of seeing things"

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu is an unlikely star. A 39-year-old blind singer and multi-instrumentalist from Elcho Island, a remote indigenous community off the coast of Australia’s Northern Territory, Gurrumul’s eponymous solo album was Britain’s best selling world music album of 2009.

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