This interview with the “Queen of the Bandaral Ngadu Delta” is incredibly inspiring.

80-year-old Walmatjarri elder, teacher, and blueswoman Kanakawa Nagarra won the 2024 Australian Music Prize (AMP) for her debut album Wirlmarni.

The world is a mixed-up place. You never know whom you touch or whom you influence in any way. Who am I to keep myself to myself and say, I’m not going to be out there, I’m for myself, not for them over there—it’s not me, I can’t do that. I’m here for the world. The world needs me. If I have to give to the world, let me do it, as much as I can in an honest way.