Darwin’s Jessica Mauboy nominated for female artist of the year Aria
JUST days after news broke that Darwin’s own Jessica Mauboy will wed longtime Darwin boyfriend Themeli Magripilis, she has been nominated for the female artist of the year ARIA
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JUST days after news broke that Jessica Mauboy will wed longtime Darwin boyfriend Themeli Magripilis, she has been nominated for an ARIA. Mauboy is up for female artist of the year for Little Things.
It’s not the first time she has been nominated in this category, and in 2013 she won the award.
The Australian music industry celebrated the pop phenomenon that is Tones and I with eight nominations for the 2019 ARIA Awards, the 19-year-old artist was wrestling with how she felt about the adulation.
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Even as her chart-slaying Dance Monkey continues to reverberate around the world to the tune of 300 million streams, finding fans from six to 60, Tones wishes her breakthrough single would dance off stage left.
“I know every artist says this but there is nothing more true than the fact you could start really not liking your song if it goes that big,” she said after her nominations tally was revealed on Thursday.
“I’m proud I wrote that song and I have those moments whenever I play it live but I have other music that I want to get out there for different reasons and I’m so ready for Dance Monkey to fly away.”
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The other songs she would like to have their moment include Never Seen The Rain, about people whose lives are paralysed by fear of failure, through to The Kids Are Coming, an anthem for the global youth activist movement.
She became the first Australian artist in five years to top the UK charts this week.
And she is racking up streams and Shazams faster than any other Aussie in the history of the digital era.
The 2019 ARIA Awards are in Sydney on November 27.
Originally published as Darwin’s Jessica Mauboy nominated for female artist of the year Aria