Jessica Mauboy shines in the outback on her first fashion cover shoot for Instyle Jessica Mauboy in a photoshoot for InStyle magazine. Picture: Justin Ridler for InStyle Source: News Limited THIS is the Jessica Mauboy she has always wanted you to see. In a stunning Camilla and Marc dress, the 24-year-old singer and actor shines as she runs through the Finke Gorge National Park at sunset. A proud young indigenous woman barefoot in the outback, naturally beautiful and joyous to be back in the bush. Mauboy cried when she saw the photos which would adorn her first fashion cover shoot for Instyle which is out tomorrow. Picture: Justin Ridler for InStyle Source: Supplied Identity has always been a big thing for me and this is another face of Australia. I want my mob to identify themselves in these photos, to see their face," she said. I got very emotional when I looked at the cover because it was me. Simple, not too much make-up, no big fan blowing my hair. The Sapphires star is gearing up for another big year ahead with her new single Pop A Bottle (Fill Me Up) out tomorrow, the Beautiful album dropping on October 4, a performance at the NRL Grand Final and her first headlining national tour kicking off in November. The Sapphires is a 2012 Australian musical comedy-drama film produced by Goalpost Pictures and distributed by Hopscotch Films, based on the 2004 stage play of the same name which is loosely based on a true story. Check out the 2013 NRL TV ad featuring Jessica Mauboy performing "Something's got a hold on me." So heading to the national park near Alice Springs recently for the Instyle shoot gave her a rare opportunity to feel the red earth she loves so much under her feet before she throws herself back into her crazy schedule. Jessica Mauboy on the cover of InStyle magazine Source: Supplied "Being in that environment makes me shine, it's where I am the most comfortable, it's who I am naturally," she said. I love wearing beautiful clothes as long as I being true to myself, being direct and honest, talking the way I talk. She expects her parents Theresa and Ferdy will be proud but their typically "cool" selves about their daughter gracing the cover of a fashion magazine. Her boyfriend Themeli Magripilis will "have a bit of a chuckle." And the holiday-makers who stopped to watch the shoot that day will now know the young woman with the big smile dancing in the red dirt was Jessica Mauboy. More of Jessica Mauboy's hits below: