Emily Wurramara

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60 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 8 Jul

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Take 5 · Best Bits: The songs that renew Emily Wurramara · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

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So Nara, in my language, Anantaliokwa, means nothing.

And I guess it's a bit of a weird name to call an album, but it all stemmed when I had the house fire and I lost everything.

And I just kind of had this full circle moment where I was like,

even though I don't have anything physically or materially, I've still got love.

I've still got joy.

I can still laugh.

I can still breathe.

It just made me look at life differently.

And also it made me think, I guess, on myself and what kind of person I wanted to be here on this earth and on this planet and what I wanted to leave with my music, especially for my daughter and my future, I think.

Yeah.

There's a really beautiful growth to this album and over the last couple of years I feel like I've grown as a person, as a mum, as a being, as an entity.

I'm very much a spiritual person and I think this whole album really explores the depth of that and the core of the raw authenticity and I think that's what Nara is.

Even though I had nothing, I had everything and there's a lot of juxtapositions there.

I think so.

I think it really gave me a sense of like reconnecting to myself as the person I am now but also helping me unlearn and learn and unpack a lot of things and work through a lot of like with this album I had to look behind to kind of gather the inspiration and I think the oldest song on Nara is Magic Woman Dancing which I wrote when I was in high school.

And it was just like this build-up, like all these different stages of my life, like, yeah, it's totally valid and it's totally okay.

I just wanted to bring the human back into my art and to my storytelling as well.

So I feel very liberated.

I think I chose this song because it reminds me of my grandmother and my grandmother used to play this for my mum and I remember when my mum showed me this song when I was like maybe six, seven years old, I had this feeling of like, ah, it's going to be okay because like, you know, it's that feeling and that sense of love and community but also that feeling of connectingness and belonging and

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