Jimmy Little AUS

Rock, Contemporary

Biography

Jimmy Little began entertaining Australians in 1956, working as a singer and actor before his 1963 chart-topping hit Royal Telephone saw him named 1964 Australian Pop Star of the Year. Over the next thirty years Jimmy became widely acknowledged as one of Australia’s premier entertainers, releasing several country, pop and rock albums before being elevated to the Tamworth Roll of Renown in 1994. In 1999 he was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame with his gold selling album Messenger voted “Adult Contemporary Album of the Year.” Jimmy has spent over twenty years as an indigenous ambassador for youth and education. A kidney transplant recipient, in 2006 he founded the Jimmy Little Foundation, which assists Indigenous Australians living with renal disease. Besides holding an Order of Australia, three honorary doctorates and several MO awards, Jimmy has been the subject of an ABC TV documentary and was named a National Trust National Living Treasure.

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