Paul Kelly (mai kiɗa na Australiya)

**Paul Maurice Kelly** AO (an haife shi a ƙasar 13 ga watan Janairun shekara ta 1955) mawaƙi ne na kiɗa na Australiya kuma mai ba da kide-kide. Ya yi solo, kuma ya jagoranci kungiyoyi da yawa, ciki har da Dots, Coloured Girls, da Manzanni. Ya yi aiki tare da wasu masu fasaha da kungiyoyi, gami da ayyukan da suka shafi Farfesa Ratbaggy da Stardust Five. Halin kiɗa na Kelly ya fito ne daga bluegrass zuwa Dub reggae na studio, amma ainihin fitowarsa ya mamaye mutane, dutse da ƙasa. Kalmominsa sun kama girman al'adu da wuri mai faɗi na Ostiraliya ta hanyar ba da labarin rayuwa game da shi sama da shekaru 30. David Fricke daga Rolling Stone ya kira Kelly "ɗaya daga cikin mafi kyawun marubuta na taɓa ji, Australiya ko in ba haka ba". Kelly ya ce, "Rubuce-rubucen waƙa yana da ban mamaki a gare ni. Har yanzu ina jin kamar na fara. Ba na jin kamar na yi amfani da shi tukuna".

Bayan ya girma a Adelaide, Kelly ya yi tafiya a Australia kafin ya zauna a Melbourne a 1976. Ya shiga cikin yanayin Dutsen mashaya da al'adun miyagun ƙwayoyi kuma ya rubuta kundi biyu tare da Dots. Kelly ya koma Sydney a shekarar 1985, inda ya kafa Paul Kelly da Coloured Girls . An sake sunan ƙungiyar Paul Kelly da Manzanni, da farko kawai don sakewa na duniya, don kauce wa yiwuwar fassarar launin fata na kalmar "launi". A ƙarshen shekarun 1980, Kelly ya koma Melbourne, kuma a cikin 1991 ya rushe Manzanni.

Kelly ta Top 40 singles sun hada da "Billy Baxter", "Before Too Long", "Darling It Hurts", "To Her Door" (wanda ya fi girma a cikin gida a 1987), "Dumb Things" (ya bayyana a kan sigogi na Amurka a 1988) da kuma "Roll on Summer". Kayan kundi na Top-20 sun haɗa da Gossip, Under the Sun, Comedy, Songs from the South (1997 compilation), *...* Babu wani abu sai dai Mafarki, Farin ciki da Faduwa, The Merri Soul Sessions, *Sonnets bakwai da Waƙar*, Mutuwa marar Bayani (tare da Charlie Owen), Life Is Fine (kundin sa na farko na lamba ɗaya) da Yanayi. Kelly ya lashe lambar yabo ta 14 ta Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), gami da shigar da shi cikin zauren shahararrun su a shekarar 1997. Dan Kelly, dan uwansa, mawaƙi ne kuma guitarist a kansa. Dan ya yi tare da Kelly a kan Ways and Means da Stolen Apples . Dukansu mambobi ne na Stardust Five, wanda ya fitar da kundi mai taken kansa a shekara ta 2006. A ranar 22 ga watan Satumbar shekara ta 2010, Kelly ya fitar da tarihinsa, How to Make Gravy, wanda ya bayyana a matsayin "ba na gargajiya ba ne; yana rubutawa ne game da taken A-Z - Ina ba da labaru game da kalmomin waƙoƙin a cikin haruffa". Fim din tarihinsa Paul Kelly: Stories of Me, wanda Ian Darling ya jagoranta, an sake shi zuwa fina-finai a watan Oktoba 2012.

A shekara ta 2001, Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) ta lissafa Top 30 Australian songs of all time, wanda ya hada da Kelly's To Her Door, da Treaty, wanda Kelly da mambobin Yothu Yindi suka rubuta. Baya ga Yarjejeniya, Kelly ta rubuta ko kuma ta rubuta waƙoƙi da yawa game da batutuwan zamantakewar 'Yan asalin Australiya da abubuwan tarihi. Ya samar da waƙoƙi ga wasu masu fasaha da yawa, yana daidaita su da muryarsu. Kundin Women at the Well daga 2002 yana da mata masu fasaha 14 da suka yi rikodin waƙoƙinsa a matsayin haraji.

An nada Kelly a matsayin Jami'in Order of Australia a cikin 2017 don ingantaccen aiki ga zane-zane da kuma inganta asalin ƙasa ta hanyar gudummawa a matsayin mawaƙa, marubucin waƙa da mawaƙa.  Kelly ya yi aure kuma ya sake shi sau biyu; yana da 'ya'ya uku kuma yana zaune a St Kilda, wani yanki na Melbourne.

## Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi
An haifi Paul Maurice Kelly  a ranar 13 ga watan Janairun 1955 a Adelaide, ga John Erwin Kelly, lauya, da Josephine (née Filippini), ta shida cikin yara takwas da suka tsira.  A cewar mujallar Rip It Up, "labari yana da shi" cewa mahaifiyar Kelly ta haife shi "a cikin taksi a waje da asibitin Calvary na Arewacin Adelaide".

Kodayake Kelly ya girma a matsayin Roman Katolika, daga baya ya bayyana kansa a matsayin wanda ba mai imani ba. Shi ne babban jikan Jeremiah Kelly, wanda ya yi hijira daga Ireland a 1852 kuma ya zauna a Clare, Kudancin Australia. Kakan mahaifinsa, Francis Kelly, ya kafa kamfanin lauya a 1917, wanda mahaifinsa, John, ya shiga a 1937. 

John Kelly ya mutu a shekara ta 1968 yana da shekaru 52, bayan an gano shi da Cutar Parkinson shekaru uku da suka gabata. Paul Kelly yana da shekaru goma sha uku lokacin da mahaifinsa ya mutu. Kelly ya bayyana mahaifinsa: "Ina da kyawawan abubuwan tunawa, shi ne irin uba wanda, da kyau, na rasa shi lokacin da ya mutu sosai. Yaran da suka fi girma a cikinsa a lokacin da ya rasu. Ba shi da isasshen lafiya don yin wasanni tare da ni. "

Kakan mahaifiyar Kelly dan kasar Argentina ne, mai suna Count Ercole Filippini, babban dan wasan opera na kamfanin La Scala Opera a Milan.

Filippini yana yawon shakatawa a Ostiraliya a shekara ta 1914 tare da kamfanin wasan kwaikwayo na Mutanen Espanya lokacin da Yaƙin Duniya na I ɓarke; Filippini ya zauna kuma daga baya ya auri Anne McPharland, ɗaya daga cikin ɗalibansa. A matsayinta na Countessa Anne Filippini, ita ce mace ta farko da ta jagoranci ƙungiyar mawaƙa ta Australia. Ta raira rawar Marguerite a cikin Kamfanin Watsa Labarai na Australiya (ABC) Rediyon Perth na *Faust* a cikin 1928. 

## Ayyuka

### 1974-1984: Farkon aiki da Dots

### 1985-1991: 'Yan mata masu launi ga Manzanni

### 1992-1999: Aiki na Solo da sauransu

### 2010-2013: Yadda za a yi Gravy, ''Labaran Ni'' da Spring da Fall''Lokacin bazara da kaka''

### 2017-yanzu: ''Rayuwa tana da kyau'' da Yanayi''Halitta''

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