Seaman Dan

Henry Gibson “Seaman” Dan (born 25 August 1929, died 1 January 2021 at the age of 91) known as Seaman Dan, an Indigenous Australian, was 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. In 2014 at the age of 85 he released A Caribbean Songbook, his tribute to the music of the West Indies. In 2016 at the age of 87 he released An Old Man of the Sea, which was a finalist for an ARIA Award in the World Music category. [Wikipedia]

His song, The Bananaboat Song, was played on Cees Vlieland’s program, Het Zeegat Uit, on 6 Dec 2023.