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Jimmy Little (born James Oswald Little on 1 March 1937), is an Australian Aboriginal musician, singer, songwriter and guitarist, whose career has spanned six decades. For many years he was the only Aboriginal star on the Australian music scene. He says his music has been influenced by Nat King Cole and American country music artist Jim Reeves.

Jimmy Little has been teaching and mentoring Indigenous music students at the Eora Centre in Redfern since 1985 and has been an ambassador for literacy and numeracy for the Department of Education since 2002. He continues this work today.

He has been recognised as an Officer of the Order of Australia, named as a Living National Treasure in 2004. Little and the composer Peter Sculthorpe were awarded an honorary doctorate in music in recognition of "their joint contribution to reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians".

In 2004 Jimmy was diagnosed with kidney failure and after two years of self-administered dialysis he received a life saving kidney transplant. The experience led him to launch the Jimmy Little Foundation to help the many other Indigenous Australians who are succumbing to kidney disease. The Foundation works with patients in regional and remote Australia and now the JLF is partnering with the Fred Hollows Foundation to develop a nutrition and education program for Indigenous children to help stem the ever increasing cycle of bad nutrition leading to diabetes that can lead to kidney failure.

Little was awarded the 2010 APRA Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music.