Who is Jungaji

Thirty years.
One burning voice.

Jungaji (pronounced jun-gah-jee) first hit the national stage as a teenager with Aim 4 More in the nineties. Three decades on — through the Black Arm Band, Banawurun and a family built on music — he has re-emerged with a sound that fuses soul and R&B with cultural truth.

He is a keeper of language and law: fluent in Gugu Yalanji, initiated by his elders, and committed to documenting the stories of his people in paint, theatre and song. His band spans generations — his son Dean forging his own path, a fifteen-year-old drummer holding the beat.

"The ancient fires within were always burning strong." — Jungaji

The fire has been tested. Twenty-three years living with lupus, surviving strokes, heart attacks and open-heart surgery — and answering all of it with art. As Chair of the Dhadjowa Foundation, he stands with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families whose loved ones have died in custody. Music, for Jungaji, is medicine — and he shares the dose.