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Seaman Dan
Henry Gibson "Seaman" Dan (born 25 August 1929), known as Seaman Dan, an Indigenous Australian, is a Torres Strait Islander singer-songwriter with a national and international reputation whose first recording was released in 2000. His album ''Perfect Pearl'' won him an ARIA award for Best World Music Album in 2004 and in 2009 won again with ''Sailing Home''.〔The Cairns Post, 11 November 2009, "Seaman's success"〕 In 2014 at the age of 85 he released ''A Caribbean Songbook'', his tribute to the music of the West Indies. ==Early life==
Seaman Dan was born on Thursday Island in the Torres Strait Islands Region of far-north Queensland, Australia in 1929.〔 His great grandfather was a sailor from Jamaica in the West Indies and his great grandmother a chief's daughter from New Caledonia.〔''Canberra Times'', 13 April 2006, "Island music escape"〕 Another grandfather came from the island of Niue in Polynesia. In the late 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, Seaman Dan worked as a boat captain and pearl diver - gathering pearl and trochus shells across the north of Australia. He also did jobs such as mineral prospecting and taxi driving.〔
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