Roger Knox and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts

Roger Knox is an Australian country singer known as the Black Elvis and the Koori King of Country. He is a Gamilaroi man (a group of Indigenous Australians), was born in Moree, and grew up in the Toomelah Aboriginal Mission near Boggabilla near the border between New South Wales and Queensland. He states, “Song is as important as language, it is a part of our culture and well-being, it is another form of healing for Aboriginal people.”