Place of Birth: Port Augusta, South Australia, Australia
Date of Birth: c. 1991 or 1992
Ethnicity: Aboriginal Australian (Yankunytjatjara, Arrernte, Bwgcolman and/or Tiwi), Torres Strait Islander, 1/16th Baloch, 1/16th Irish, 1/16th Pashtun
Zaachariaha Fielding is an Australian musician and artist. He is the vocalist of the electronic duo Electric Fields.
Zaachariaha’s father is artist Robert Fielding.
Zaachariaha’s mother has been described both as “of Torres Strait/Palm Island heritage” and as “a Tiwi Islander hip-hop dancer from Cairns”. The indigenous Torres Strait Islanders are Melanesian, while Palm Islanders (Bwgcolman) and Tiwi Islanders are Aboriginal Australian.
Zaachariaha’s paternal grandfather was Bruce Fielding. Bruce was born at Lilla Creek Station, near Aputula, Northern Territory, and was of Yankunytjatjara Aboriginal Australian descent.
Zaachariaha’s paternal grandmother was Garieva Mahomet “Grieve” Dadleh (the daughter of Noor Mahomet “Lulla” Dadleh and Miriam “Bebe” Khan). Garieva was born at Dalhousie Homestead, Southern Australia. Noor was the son of a Baloch Pakistani father, Dadleh “Dad Ali” Balooch/Baluch, and of a white Australian mother, Lavinia Ellen Shaw, from Hergott Springs, South Australia, who is said to have been of Irish descent. Miriam was the daughter of a Pashtun Pakistani father, from Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and of an Arrernte Aboriginal Australian mother, from Hermannsburg, Northern Territory.
Zaachariaha’s maternal grandfather had the surname Lowah.
Sources: https://www.glenelgartgallery.com.au/aboriginal-artists/men/robert-fielding/
https://www.aboriginalsignature.com/robert-fielding-punnagka
https://sv.findagrave.com/memorial/201798288/noor_mahomet_dadleh
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