Kelly asked Roach to open up for him at the Melbourne Concert Hall, where the song was well-received and he received a recording contract. Roach penned the song, “Took the Children Away,” and sang it on community radio, in pubs, and on TV, grabbing the attention of singer/songwriter, Paul Kelly. They had two children and she “turned his life around.” At the age of 17, he met another Indigenous Australian teen who was also a child of the stolen generations, Ruby Hunter and married her. He left home a few months later to find his siblings and took his guitar with him.Īccording to his memoir, he spent years roaming the streets, suffered from alcoholism and epilepsy, spent time in jail, and attempted suicide. The Guardian reports that at the age of 15, he received a letter from a sister he had never heard from and learned that he had seven siblings total and that his real mother had just passed away. Roach grew up listening to his adopted father’s music and decided to take up guitar. He then became a child of the stolen generations. They were told that his parents had died in a house fire, according to his obituary.
at the age of “three or four”, alongside his two sisters and was raised in Melbourne by a white family (Dulcie and Alex Cox) who were transplants from Scotland. Roach, born in Mooroopna, was taken from his parents, Nellie Austin and Archie Roach, Sr. He was most well-known for his song, “Took The Children Away,” about the stolen generations in Australia. WARRNAMBOOL, AUSTRALIA (CelebrityAccess) – Indigenous Australian singer/songwriter, guitarist, and humanitarian, Archie Roach died Saturday (July 30) at the age of 66.
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