Roger Knox was born on 1948 and is an Australian country singer, nicknamed "the Black Elvis" and "Koori King of Country".
20 Facts About Roger Knox
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Roger Knox is of the Gamilaroi nation, an Aboriginal Australian people.
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Roger Knox's mother was a stolen child, who was taken from her parents as a baby and raised in a children's home in Bomaderry.
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Roger Knox was not allowed to attend the high school in Goondiwindi, but instead was sent by the mission to work without pay at one of their properties.
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Roger Knox has said that the first music he heard growing up was gospel music, which his grandmother, who taught Sunday school, played.
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Roger Knox left the mission at 17 and moved to Tamworth, where he became a singer.
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Roger Knox started out in the 1980s as a gospel singer.
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Roger Knox acquired the nickname "The Black Elvis" at the Star Maker talent contest when he was 31.
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In 2007, Roger Knox went public with claims that he couldn't get booked at Tamworth's annual festival, Tamworth Country Music Festival, "because he attracted the wrong crowd".
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In 2009, Roger Knox was scheduled to perform at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, Illinois, on 10 October 2009 with Jon Langford and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts.
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In 2016, Roger Knox joined the cast of the stage show adaptation of Buried Country itself, which played its premiere performance in Newcastle in August.
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In 2006, Roger Knox was given the Jimmy Little Award for Lifetime Achievement in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Music at the 2006 Deadlys.
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Roger Knox is well known in Australia and is loved for his regular tours of the New South Wales and Queensland prison systems, where many Aboriginal men and women are incarcerated.
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Roger Knox has performed at many Canadian prisons for Native American prisoners.
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Roger Knox participated in the Voices United for Harmony project, jointly managed by the Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council and Griffith University.
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Roger Knox's son Buddy is a musician, starting to play guitar at the age of 10.
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Roger Knox was a finalist for Male Artist of the Year in the 2009 DeadlyAward, and won numerous awards further awards.
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Roger Knox has toured with the Warumpi Band, Troy Cassar-Daley, Paul Kelly, and Kev Carmody.
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In 1981, early in his career, Roger Knox joined the roadshow of Brian Young, who had a band that criss-crossed Australia by light plane, which crashed due to engine failure.
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Roger Knox suffered third-degree burns over more than 90 percent of his body and became addicted to painkillers.