Auriel Andrew has been played on NTS in shows including Enter The Portal - Opals of Oz, featured first on 7 October 2020. Songs played include I'm The Other Woman.

Auriel Andrew OAM (1947 – 2 January 2017) was an Indigenous Australian country musician of the Arrernte people of Central Australia. Andrew was born in Darwin, and grew up in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, leaving for Adelaide, South Australia aged 21 to pursue her music career.

Auriel came from the Arrernte people in Alice Springs. Her skin name was Mbitjana and her totem was the hairy caterpillar (Ayepe-arenye). The youngest of seven children, she started singing at the age of four, and began her professional career in the late 1960s working with Chad Morgan in the Adelaide and Port Lincoln areas, and appeared on live TV music broadcasts, including shows hosted by Roger Cardwell, Johnny Mack and Ernie Sigley, and then becoming a regular on Channel Nine's Heather McKean & Reg Lindsey Show. In 1973, she moved to Sydney, and toured with Jimmy Little, performing at popular clubs and pubs around New South Wales.

She performed at the Sydney Opera House for the venue's grand opening, and sang "Amazing Grace" in Pitjantjitjara for Pope John Paul II during his Australian tour. At the 2008 Deadlys, Auriel was presented a Lifetime Achievement Award for contribution to Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander music. Auriel's well-known recordings include the country classic "Truck Drivin' Woman" and Bob Randell's "Brown Skin Baby". She performed at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Woodford Dreaming Festival, and regularly performed at various clubs around the Newcastle area. In 2011, she was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for her work as an entertainer and contribution to her communities through charity events.

She appeared in the SBS documentary Buried Country: The Story of Aboriginal Country Music (2000) about Aboriginal country music. (associated with the book by Clinton Walker), singing "Truck Driving Woman", and in the 1970s was a regular guest on the Johnny Mac Show, Channel Nine's Reg Lindsay's Country and Western Hour and The Ernie Sigley Show.

She appeared in 2007 in the show Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word, written and performed by English artist Christopher Green in the guise of Tina C. at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival.

Her 2013 album Return To Alice was produced by Gareth Hudson, and included new original songs about her life and childhood.

She has taught Aboriginal culture in classrooms for 20 years, passing on her knowledge in schools in Queensland, the Northern Territory and New South Wales, and in 2016 joined the cast of the stage adaptation of Clinton Walker's Buried Country, which made its premiere in her hometown of Newcastle on 20 August.

Awards 1991 Tamworth Hands Of Fame 2005 NT Indigenous Music Awards: inducted into the hall of fame 2008 The Deadlys: Jimmy Little Lifetime Achievement Award for Contribution to Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Music Order of Australia Medal 2011 (Hunter Region) for contribution to art, music and education.