| 词条 | Deborah Cheetham |
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| name = Deborah Ceetham | post-nominals = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AO}} | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1964|11|24}} | birth_place = Nowra, Australia | education = Bachelor of Music, NSW Conservatorium of Music | occupation = Singer, actor, composer and playwright }}{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2011}}{{Use Australian English|date=October 2011}} Deborah Joy Cheetham, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AO}} (born 24 November 1964), is an Aboriginal Australian soprano, actor, composer and playwright. Early life and educationCheetham is a member of the Stolen Generations; she was taken from her mother when she was three weeks old[1] and was raised by a white baptist family. Jimmy Little was her uncle. Cheetham graduated from the NSW Conservatorium of Music with a Bachelor of Music Education Degree.[2] CareerIn 1997 Cheetham wrote the autobiographical play White Baptist Abba Fan which tells of her experiences of coming to terms with her homosexuality and racial identity while trying to reunite with her Aboriginal family.[1][3] White Baptist Abba Fan has toured internationally.[4] As a soprano, Cheetham has performed in France, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and New Zealand.[5] She sang at the opening ceremonies of the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2003 Rugby World Cup.[6][7] In October 2010, Cheetham's opera Pecan Summer, based on the 1939 Cummeragunja walk-off, opened in Mooroopna, Victoria. She wrote, composed and performed in the production by the Short Black Opera Company.[8][9] Cheetham has advocated for the lyrics to "Advance Australia Fair" to be rewritten.[10] In 2018 Cheetham was one of 52 people who contributed to Anita Heiss's book Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia, along with Adam Goodes, Miranda Tapsell and Celeste Liddle. AwardsIn the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours List, Cheetham was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), for "distinguished service to the performing arts as an opera singer, composer and artistic director, to the development of Indigenous artists, and to innovation in performance".[11] Cheetham was inducted onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2015.[12] References1. ^1 [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/where-did-all-the-children-go-715666.html "Where did all the children go?"], The Independent, 5 July 2000 2. ^"Deborah Cheetham", Sunday Nights With John Cleary, 3 February 2001, Radio National 3. ^[https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/mar/22/artsfeatures2 "The sins of the fathers"] by Michael Billington, The Guardian, 22 March 2000 4. ^White Baptist Abba Fan, Radio National's Arts Talk 5. ^Deborah Cheetham, Australia Council for the Arts 6. ^"Singing for the world" by Frank Walker, The Age, 14 September 2003 7. ^"Shepparton pulls together to face up to indigenous disadvantage" by Peter Jackson, Crikey, 13 August 2009 8. ^Pecan Summer {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706111415/http://www.riverlinksvenues.com.au/pecansummer.html |date=6 July 2011 }} at Riverlinks 9. ^{{Cite book|title=Opera Indigene: Re/presenting First Nations and Indigenous Cultures|last=Karantonis|first=Pamela|publisher=Ashgate|year=2011|isbn=9780754669890|location=Surrey, England|pages=325}} 10. ^[https://theconversation.com/young-and-free-why-i-declined-to-sing-the-national-anthem-at-the-2015-afl-grand-final-49234] 11. ^{{cite web|url=http://gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/honours/qb/qb2014/Gazette%201%20Order%20of%20Australia.pdf|title=The Queen's Birthday 2014 Honours List|date=8 June 2014|accessdate=8 June 2014}} 12. ^{{Cite web|url=https://herplacemuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2018-Victorian-Honour-Roll-of-Women-booklet.pdf|title=Victorian Honour Roll of Women 2018|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}} External links{{ABC Classic FM}}{{Portal bar|classical music|opera|biography}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Cheetham, Deborah}} 17 : Living people|People from Nowra|1964 births|Australian sopranos|Australian opera singers|Indigenous Australian musicians|Lesbian musicians|LGBT musicians from Australia|LGBT singers|Sydney Conservatorium of Music alumni|Officers of the Order of Australia|Members of the Stolen Generations|Australian musical theatre librettists|Australian classical composers|Australian opera composers|Australian female classical composers|Female opera composers |
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