What is Isaac Yamma?
{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians --> | name = Isaac Yamma | image = Isaac Yama outside Ininti Store, Uluru. 1983.JPG | caption = Isaac Yama outside Ininti Store, [[Uluru]], NT, Australia. 1983 | image_size = | background = solo_singer | birth_date = 1940 | birth_place = [[Kaltukatjara, Northern Territory]], [[Australia]] | death_date = January 1990 | death_place = | instrument = [[Singing|vocals]], [[acoustic guitar]] | genre = [[Country music|Country]] | occupation = [[Musician]] | years_active = 1960&ndash;1989 | label = [[Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association|CAAMA Records]] | associated_acts = [[Frank Yamma]]<br>Pitjantjatjara Country Band | website = }} '''Isaac Yamma''' (1940 – January 1990) was a [[Country music|country]] [[singer]] from [[central Australia]]. He was one of the earliest musicians in Australia to become well known singing [[Western civilization|Western]]-style songs in an [[Indigenous Australians|indigenous]] language. Isaac was a [[Pitjantjatjara]] man who was born by a waterhole near [[Kaltukatjara, Northern Territory|Docker River]]. He started his musical career as a member of a band called Areyonga Desert Tigers. He later formed his own band, the Pitjantjatjara Country Band. It was made up of his sons Hector, [[Frank Yamma|Frank]], Peter and Paul and his cousin Russell Yamma. His song were mostly sung in Pitjantjatjara. ==Discography== ;Albums *''Isaac Yama and the Pitjantjatjara Country Band'' (1987) - [[Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association|CAAMA]] *''Isaac Yama and the Pitjantjatjara Country Band No.2'' (1987) - CAAMA ;Compilations *''Papal Concert, Alice Springs'' (1982) - CAAMA *''Desert Songs 1'' (1982) - CAAMA *''Desert Songs 2'' (1983) - CAAMA *''From the Bush'' (1990) - CAAMA *''AIDS: How Could I Know'' (1989) - CAAMA *''25th Anniversary Compilation 2'' (2006) - CA