ZIPPORAH

About the Artist

Hot off her first-ever headline show at the Sydney Opera House for Vivid Sydney, ZIPPORAH releases the extended cut of her debut mixtape NAUNGU URUI, featuring new single 'White Flag'. The rising artist performs at the National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMAs) in Darwin tomorrow night, where she's nominated for Best New Talent and Song of the Year (for her mixtape track 'Some Typa Way'). She will then be heading to Bigsound in September, where she will be playing two showcases including the triple j unearthed takeover of The Brightside. She has been named as a Bigsound Ones To Watch artist by multiple outlets including triple j and FBi Radio. Expanding the world of NAUNGU URUI, ZIPPORAH’s EP extension is her most intimate body of work to date, introducing country influences alongside her signature blend of alternative R&B, neo-soul and jazz. Inspired by her family's lifelong love of country music, a genre that has long held a special place in many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, the project embraces storytelling as its guiding force. Exploring love in its many forms, ancestral, familial, romantic and self-defining, the collection reflects on the relationships, memories and cultural ties that have shaped her, offering a powerful meditation on connection, grief, resilience and belonging. The mixtape contains four new singles, ‘Set Sail’, ‘Wandjina Boy’, ‘Love Potion’ and the focus single ‘White Flag’. Together, these songs deepen the emotional landscape of NAUNGU URUI, inviting listeners into stories of grief, healing, family and resilience while continuing to showcase ZIPPORAH’s distinctive storytelling, rich vocal delivery and unwavering connection to culture. ‘White Flag’ confronts emotional warfare, vulnerability and the courage it takes to let go. Through imagery of battle, armour and surrender, the song explores the painful realisation that love cannot survive behind emotional defences. Rather than framing surrender as defeat, ZIPPORAH reclaims it as an act of strength, choosing acceptance, self-respect and peace over fighting battles that were never hers to win. Born into the entertainment industry to beloved performers, ZIPPORAH’s earliest core memories have been formed in rehearsal rooms, venues and on stages around the country. A proud Samu and Suy woman from Saibai Island in the Torres Strait, ZIPPORAH has walked between two worlds – embracing both sides of her Torres Strait / Australian heritage - to build a career that has always kept her culture front of mind.