Mandawuy Yunupingu is the band leader of Yothu Yindi, an Australian band with both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal members. The name Yothu Yindi means ‘mother and child’. Mandawuy’s full name is Mandawuy Djarrtjuntjun Yunupingu. Mandawuy means ‘from clay’. Djarrtjuntjun means ‘roots of the paperbark tree that still burn and throw off heat after a fire has died down’, and Yunupingu is ‘a solid rock that, having travelled from freshwater, stands in salty waters, its base deep in the earth’.

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Charts Queen Adele performed her new single “Set Fire To The Rain” on BBC 1’s “The Graham Norton Show” on Friday (April 29th) night – The powerhouse diva is currently in the UK promoting the new ’21’ single before returning in two weeks to the states where she’s set to begin her 2-month US tour on May 12th in Washington.

NEW YORK, March 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Adele’s sophomore album 21 soars to the #1 position on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart with over 350,000 copies sold this week. To date, Adele’s 21 is the biggest selling album of 2011. This amazing U.S. debut comes hot on the heels of Adele’s massive international success where 21 entered charts at #1 in the U.K., Ireland, Austria, New Zealand, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Belgium and Canada. After delivering a jaw dropping performance of her song “Someone Like You” at The Brit Awards on February 15, that live performance immediately shot to the top of the U.K. singles chart. Also that week Adele’s single “Rolling In The Deep” was at #4 with her two albums both occupying the #1 (21) and #4 (19) positions on the UK album chart. This feat has earned Adele the distinction of being the only living artist to tie the Beatles 1964 record of having two entries in the top 5 on both U.K. singles and album charts. Released in Europe on January 24, Adele’s 21 has dominated the UK album chart in the #1 position for five weeks straight. This week Adele occupies the #1 and #2 positions on the UK album chart with 21 and 19 respectively.

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