12 Facts About Pip Proud

Phillip John "Pip" Proud was an Australian singer-songwriter, poet, novelist and dramatist whose idiosyncratic song-poems gained a cult following in Australia in the 1960s and around the world in the 1990s-2000s.

Phillip John "Pip" Proud was born in Adelaide in September 1947 and is the younger brother of artist Geoffrey Proud.

Pip Proud chanted his poems in his soft, unmelodious voice, to his own guitar music.

Pip Proud was the subject of a 17-minute experimental documentary, De Da De Dum, directed by Sydney film maker, Garry Shead, a member of the Ubu Films collective.

Pip Proud sang his gentle pop songs in a quaint, quavering voice while strumming or tapping the strings of his electric guitar.

Pip Proud travelled to Britain in late 1969 to further his career.

Pip Proud lived in northern Tasmania for some years before relocating to northern New South Wales, eventually living in Tenterfield in the mid-1990s.

Pip Proud was tracked down in 1995 by historian David Nichols leading to the re-release of his two Polydor LPs on CD via Nic Dalton's Half a Cow label as Eagle-Wise.

Pip Proud resumed recording new material to release more albums, primarily, for the Emperor Jones label.

Pip Proud played two live shows, his first in over thirty years, in Melbourne in late 2006.

Pip Proud died in March 2010, aged 62, from throat cancer.

Pip Proud was survived by five children and their two mothers.