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2025 NT Australian of the Year Grant Ngulmiya Nundhirribala
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1/20/2025
Meet Your Australians - 2025 NT Australian of the Year Grant Ngulmiya Nundhirribala. ACM is proud to be media partner for the 2025 Australian of the Year Awards.
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I always listened to my father singing about the land, the water, the sea, the bird, the
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smoking ceremony.
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And I was listening, listening, listening when I was five years old.
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I started music with the iraki, didgeridoo, and clapping stick.
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I started to play instrument, keyboard, playing bass, rhythm, and I tried to put all the traditional
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song into my western music.
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My father said, hold me up.
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What kind of a style that?
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This is my style.
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You love my style.
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Can I do it with the traditional song?
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That's your dream.
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Go for it.
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I'm taking my music around the world and taking all my group when every big festival like
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that, I always take them.
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I went to Budapest festival, went to Europe, different places there.
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I got two band.
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This is my only band with me, Tony, and my boy, ourself.
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And I got big group called Yilila, Yilila band.
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I like to record and performing with other musician.
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My favorite instrument is Indian tabla.
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I like to play with the tabla with my traditional song.
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Some young generation interesting traditional song, ceremony, but some nothing.
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I'm trying to push them in my community to be strong.
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That's how we put our music, traditional song, we put it on video so they can listen and
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thinking about how they're going to do their future.
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I got 12 years old grandson.
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He always ask me, Amri mean granddad in their language.
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Amri, what you do when you go overseas or you do your music like that?
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And I tell my grandson, everything you never see, you can see there.
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And he said to me, one day I'll be follow you and I'll be play this for you in the concert
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in stage with you.
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I like to pass it over to the generation.
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If you concentrate traveling or music or whatever, what you want, just put it here.
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