Emily Wurramara is an Indigenous Australian singer and songwriter.

In 2018, Wurramara was nominated for Best Blues and Roots Album at the ARIA Awards.

Early life
Wurramara is a Warnindhilyagwa woman from Groote Eylandt, 50 kilometres (31 mi) off the Northern Territory of Australia. She grew up in Brisbane.[1][2]

Music
Wurramara writes and sings in both English and Anindilyakwa.[1][2]

In 2016, she released her debut EP, Black Smoke, which earned her a Queensland Music Award. She followed it up with an album named Milyakburra in 2018 and toured nationally with Alice Skye.[3]

In November 2022, she collaborated with other First Nations artists Emma Donovan, DOBBY, Drmngnow, and Optamus to create a song in memory of Cassius Turvey, a Noongar-Yamatji boy who had died at the age of 15 the result of an assault by a random attacker when walking home from school in Perth, Western Australia. The song, titled "Forever 15",[4] was played at Turvey's funeral on 18 November 2022 funeral[5] and released three days later on 21 November 2022.[4][6]
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