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Australian musician
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Awards Received
Member of the Order of Australia

Archibald William Roach AM (born 8 January 1956) is an Aboriginal (Gunditjmara and Bundjalung) Australian musician. He is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and a campaigner for the rights of Indigenous Australians.

Roach's debut solo album, Charcoal Lane, was released in 1990. It featured the song "Took the Children Away", which was added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry in 2013. Also in 2013, he won a Deadly Award for a "Lifetime Contribution to Healing the Stolen Generations" as well as for Album of the Year. Along with fellow Deadly winner Pat O'Shane, he called for an end to the Northern Territory Intervention. Roach has toured around the globe, headlining and opening shows for Joan Armatrading, Bob Dylan, Billy Bragg, Tracy Chapman, Suzanne Vega and Patti Smith. At the 2020 ARIA Music Awards on 25 November 2020, Roach was inducted into their Hall of Fame.