Mutti Mutti, Yorta Yorta and Nari Nari singer-songwriter Uncle Kutcha Edwards is in mourning for his late older brother Dave, who recently passed away.

The 59-year-old tenor is thinking now about the times the brothers appeared on stage together, in the months before and after prime minister Kevin Rudd’s 2008 apology to the stolen generations.

Kutcha Edwards will make his Sydney Symphony Orchestra debut next week. Credit: Penny Stephens

As a toddler, Kutcha, born in Balranald in south-western New South Wales in 1965, had been ripped from their mother Mary alongside siblings Reg, Mick, Wally, Alice and Maria and placed in a Methodist children’s home in suburban Melbourne.

Dave escaped the same authorities who “came a-knockin” that day because he was in Swan Hill Hospital in north-we

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