Candy Williams

Claude Williams was born on Erambie Mission, near Cowra, New South Wales, in 1929. ==Career==

In the 1960s, he appeared on a number of teen TV shows, and also toured with Jimmy Little's All Coloured Show. Williams' brother is musician Harry Williams, who sung in a musical duo with Wilga Munro (later his wife, known as Wilga Williams), and also with their band the Country Outcasts. Claude also played with the Country Outcasts, touring with them throughout New South Wales and Victoria. Williams was a keen advocate for Aboriginal people, as a member of the Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs as well as the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (usually known by its acronym FCAATSI). ==Recognition==

• 2002: Posthumous Deadly Award, for Outstanding Contribution to Aboriginal Music ==Personal life and family==

In 1957, he was best man at famous country singer Jimmy Little's wedding. With his wife Hazel, he had a son and a daughter, Claude and Avril. He is first cousin to Harry Williams, the first Indigenous soccer player to represent the Socceroos at a World Cup, in 1974. He lived in Sydney with his family, until his death in 1983 of a urinary tract infection. ==Selected filmography==

• Burst of Summer (1961) • Wandjina! (1966) • Top Mates (1979) • A Country Practice ==References==