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Warren H Williams

Warren Hedley Williams (born 27 December 1963) is an Aboriginal Australian singer, musician and songwriter from Ntaria in Central Australia.

Williams has also worked in radio and as an actor and has run as an Australian Greens candidate in the 2010 and 2013 Federal elections.

Williams was born on 27 December 1963 in Hermannsburg, the son of country musician Gus Williams. He is an Arrernte man.

He started playing guitar at the age of six with his father, and later went to school at a Lutheran college in Adelaide: Immanuel College in Novar Gardens.

Williams was included on a compilation CD released in 1999 to promote reconciliation in Australia. The album was titled Reconciliation: Stories of the Heart, Sounds of the Rock and included music, personal statements from celebrities, and excerpts from historical speeches and events.

In 2007, he wrote the musical Magic Coolamon, which debuted as the first ever Central Australian Indigenous musical.

Williams toured with John Williamson many times, including "Hillbilly Road" in 2008.

In 2015, Williams invited long-time friend and award-winning Australian singer Shane Nicholson to visit his hometown of Hermannsburg (Ntaria) to help break his writer's block. Williams took him to sacred sites and shared Aboriginal Dreaming stories which inspired Nicholson's ARIA-nominated album Hell Breaks Loose, which features the track 'Hermannsburg'.

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