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Origin | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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Years active | 1999 | –present
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Website | stiffgins |
The Stiff Gins are an Indigenous Australian band from Sydney. They call their music "acoustic with harmonies" and are regularly compared to Tiddas.[1] The band was formed by Emma Donovan, Nardi Simpson and Kaleena Briggs in 1999,[2] after meeting at the Eora Centre while studying music. The band's name uses the word gin (a derogatory word for an Aboriginal woman which was also a Dharug word for woman/wife) with the word stiff to become strong black woman,[3] a name which caused debate about use of the word gin.[4]
The band won Deadlys in 2000 for Most Promising New Talent and in 2001 for their single "Morning Star".[5]