{"id":55723,"date":"2025-08-09T16:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/55723\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T16:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:07:09","slug":"emily-wurramara-wins-artist-of-the-year-at-2025-national-indigenous-music-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/55723\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Wurramara wins Artist of the Year at 2025 National Indigenous Music Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warnindhilyagwa singer-songwriter Emily Wurramara has taken out Artist of the Year at the 2025 National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMAs).<\/p>\n

Jessica Mauboy and Troy Cassar-Daley led a star-studded line-up of performers, as the country’s top First Nations musical acts were recognised by their peers on Larrakia country in Darwin.<\/p>\n

Mauboy was also inducted into the NIMAs Hall of Fame during the ceremony, joining the likes of Australian musical legends from Yothu Yindi to Ruby Hunter.<\/p>\n

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Darwin-born Jessica Mauboy rose to fame on the fourth season of Australian Idol.\u00a0 (Supplied: Jason Henley)<\/p>\n

Wurramara also won the Music Clip of the Year Award for her sultry, hypnotic track Lordy Lordy featuring Tasman Keith, shot on Larrakia country and Gadigal country.<\/p>\n

The track, which she wrote in the wake of the 2023 Voice referendum, features Red Flag dancers from Numbulwar, NT.<\/p>\n

It’s been a huge year for the artist, who released her second studio album NARA in August and became the first Indigenous woman to win Best Contemporary Album at the 2024 ARIAs.<\/p>\n

Eight-piece Yol\u014bu funk outfit, Andrew Gurruwiwi Band \u2014 named for its Galpu clan lead singer \u2014 was also amongst the night’s big winners, taking out Best New Talent and Song of the Year for Once Upon a Time.<\/p>\n

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The Andrew Gurruwiwi Band hail from East Arnhem Land in the NT.\u00a0 (ABC News: Michael Franchi)<\/p>\n

‘Music is like a medicine’: Blind radio presenter taking a crack at the Australian mainstream<\/a><\/p>\n

More than two decades on from an accident that left him blind, Andrew Gurruwiwi\u00a0is working on breaking into the mainstream scene with the music that “gave him his life back”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gurruwiwi, aged in his 50s, turned to music after losing his sight in an accident<\/a> in 1998, and now mentors young Yol\u014bu musicians in the region.<\/p>\n

Last year’s Artist of the Year winner, Malyangapa and Barkindji hip hop talent BARKAA took out Album of the Year for her second album Big Tidda, which celebrates her resilience and determination triumphing over an ice addiction and jail time.<\/p>\n

Just days ago, BARKAA’s mother Cleonie Quayle won a National Indigenous Fashion Award in Darwin for a dress she made for BARKAA’s We Up music video, which symbolised her recovery journey.<\/p>\n

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BARKAA (right) with her mother Cleonie Quayle at the National Indigenous Fashion Awards in Darwin.\u00a0 (ABC News: Pete Garnish)<\/p>\n

The Bulman School and surrounding community, which were nominated for three songs in the category of Community Clip of the Year, won for their track Crocodile Style.<\/p>\n

It’s the second year in a row the Northern Territory community has taken out the award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warnindhilyagwa singer-songwriter Emily Wurramara has taken out Artist of the Year at the 2025 National Indigenous Music Awards…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[46117,46118,64,63,46119,46116,134,46115,136,46113,46114],"class_list":["post-55723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-andrew-gurruwiwi","tag-andrew-gurruwiwi-band","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-barkaa","tag-emily-wurramara","tag-entertainment","tag-jessica-mauboy","tag-music","tag-national-indigenous-music-awards","tag-nimas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}