Career
He performed under his own name and the stage name. Assang was of Aboriginal, Pacific Islander, and Asian descent. As he may have made the first Australian Rock"n"Roll recording.
A single he recorded with Red Perksey and his orchestra included a version of the Rock Around The Clock.
This single may have been recorded in 1955, before Johnny O"Keefe"s Wild One in 1957. As an actor Assang had a major part in the television series Barrier Reef (1971–1972), appeared in episodes of Skippy and Hunter (1968), Spyforce (1971), Boney (1972 and Number 96 (1974).
He also acted in several films, the 1969 film The Intruders, the 1973 film And Millions Will Die, and was one of the voices in the animated movie Dot and the Kangaroo (1977). Under the name he had a short-lived television series in 1958 called Sings.
