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Stan Coster was born on 27 May, 1930 in Australia, is an A 20th-century australian male singer. Discover Stan Coster's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?
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Stan Coster OAM (27 May 1930 – 25 March 1997) was an Australian country music singer-songwriter.
His songs were regularly performed by Slim Dusty and other singers.
Stan Coster was born at Casino on the north coast of New South Wales, Australia in 1930.
One of seven children, each of whom were musically talented.
He left school at the age of 14 and worked for a local butcher in Woolgoolga, NSW.
By the age of 16, he was cutting sleepers for train tracks and at 18 years of age he went to work as a station hand before moving to Sydney and in 1948 moved to Cooma, New South Wales, to work on the Snowy Mountains Scheme.
In 1950, at age 20, Coster joined a travelling rodeo as a rough rider and in 1951 he married Dorothy Aileen Milto, with whom he had three children, including country music singer Tracy Coster.
The song recalls Coster's days working as a sheep-shearing "ringer" around Cunnamulla in the 1950s.
Dusty recorded the song and it became an enduring country music hit, later covered by Lee Kernaghan.
The statue was unveiled by country music personalities Anne Kirkpatrick (Dusty's daughter), Jayne Kelly and Tracy and Russell Coster.
The Annual Tenthill Turnout is held at Ma Ma Creek in May on the Saturday closest to Coster's birthday, 27 May, to celebrate Coster's music.
The Australian Roll of Renown honours Australian and New Zealander musicians who have shaped the music industry by making a significant and lasting contribution to Country Music.
In 1956, Coster began writing songs and met Slim Dusty in 1960 at Longreach, Queensland.
Dusty recorded his first Coster song, "Return of the Stockman" in 1962.
Dusty went on to record another 70 of Stan Coster's tracks.
In the late 1970s, where he began his singing career at Joe Maguire's Pub (now known as the Tatersall's Hotel).
They have been held annually since 1973.
The Tamworth Songwriters Association (TSA) is an annual songwriting contest for original country songs, awarded in January at the Tamworth Country Music Festival.
It was inaugurated in 1976 and the inductee is announced at the Country Music Awards of Australia in Tamworth in January.
The Country Music Awards of Australia (CMAA) (also known as the Golden Guitar Awards) is an annual awards night held in January during the Tamworth Country Music Festival, celebrating recording excellence in the Australian country music industry.
In 1977, Coster won the Golden Guitar for APRA Song of the Year with his composition "Three Rivers Hotel", recorded by Slim Dusty.
While on the land Coster worked as a ringer, fencer, slaughterman, horse-breaker, kangaroo shooter, and shed hand and was able to draw these experiences into his bush ballads.
Popular compositions such as his "Three Rivers Hotel", which tells the story of building a train line into a remote nickel mine, were based on his own life experiences and brought to popular attention through performances and recordings by Slim Dusty and other artists.
In the 1980s Coster held his Stan Coster Show at the Tenthill Hotel in Upper Tenthill, Queensland to crowds too large to be accommodated in the hotel.
He appeared in the 1984 feature film The Slim Dusty Movie and in that year formed his own record label, "Gidgee Records".
In 1987, Coster won another Golden Guitar for APRA Song of the Year for "He’s a Good Bloke When He’s Sober".
In 1989 he was awarded an OAM for "Services to Country Music" and was in 1990 inducted into the Australian Roll of Renown at Tamworth.
He won the 1995 Golden Guitar (Heritage Award) for Bush Ballad Song of the Year with "Lawson’s Loaded Dog" and in 1996 released his last album Come Back to the Bush.
In later life, Coster moved to Tamworth, New South Wales and then to nearby Manilla.
Stan Coster died from cancer on 25 March 1997 at Manilla.
On Sunday 18 January 1998, another memorial was erected in Manilla (-30.7477°N, 150.7202°W).
Two memorials were erected in Queensland.
In 1999, a bronze bust featuring his image was unveiled in Tamworth's Bicentennial Park (-31.0931°N, 150.9291°W).
On Tuesday 4 April 2000, a memorial was erected at Centenary Park, Mowen Street, Clifton (-27.9322°N, 151.9053°W).
On Saturday 27 May 2000, another memorial was unveiled by Bob Katter at the Tenthill Hotel Carpark in Upper Tenthill (-27.6344°N, 152.2142°W).
In 2005, in tribute to the iconic song "Cunnamulla Fella" performed by Dusty with lyrics by Stan Coster, an eponymous statue was unveiled in the Queensland town of Cunnamulla.