[1] Organ was well known on the Australian club circuit singing favourites by Elvis Presley, Johnny O'Keefe and others.
[2] Rikki left his job as an electrician in Wollongong and found fame after winning Bert Newton's New Faces in the 1980s.
[2] In 2009, Organ was diagnosed with multiple myeloma blood cancer.
He died on 2 August 2016 and is survived by his wife Jane and two children, Taylor-Louise and Tyne-James.
Rikki Organ won ten awards in that time.