Kankawa Nagarra
Curated by Lonnie Holley
Nobody can tell the story of Kankawa Nagarra better than the artist, educator, and activist herself. Born on the traditional lands of the Gooniyandi and Walmatjarri peoples of north-western Australia, her life and practice was nourished by listening to tribal songs, then gospel, country, rock and roll, until she’d heard the Blues and it awakened something in her. Through the genre’s inherent storytelling she found a medium to express all her thoughts and feelings. Her life—nearly ended at birth under tribal law for being born of forbidden love, and saved by a courageous Great-Great—became the source and substance of her songs. Shifting gracefully between musical styles, languages and moods, she is humorous, warm and real about the hardships of life and the pillage of the land she holds dear.
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