Budjerah

Budjerah Slabb (known mononymously as Budjerah) is an Australian singer-songwriter from Fingal Head, New South Wales. He is a Coodjinburra man from the Bundjalung nation.
His debut single "Missing You" was released in October 2020. Budjerah performed the track live for Australian live music program "The Sound" on 6 December 2020.
Early life.
Budjerah Slabb was born in 2002. His parents are licensed pastors. Budjerah told NME "When I was born… it was like 'oh, we gotta do band rehearsal, we gotta do worship practice for Sunday' and I'd come along to that. I think just being surrounded by that, I learned a lot and it just stuck. I've just lived music all my life."
Slabb said "I grew up singing Sam Cooke and listening to gospel singers like The Clark Sisters. That's the kind of music that has been around since I was little."
Career.
2019–present: Debut EP.
In 2019, Budjerah auditioned for "The Voice (Australian season 8)", singing "Climb Every Mountain" but did not progress past the blind auditions.
In September 2019, he uploaded the song "River Dry" onto Triple J Unearthed.
In 2020, Budjerah found kinship with Matt Corby, who produced his debut EP. In October 2020, Budjerah released his debut single, "Missing You" which topped the Triple J airplay chart.
Hayden Daivs from PileRats said "Missing You is a spectacular introductory moment for Budjerah that combines pockets of his life with the music that defined it, bringing together a tapestry of long-time influences spread through soul, hip-hop, R&B, indie and pop only to distil it into a sound that seemingly moves between all of them, capturing the multi-faceted musical brain of someone whose moment has been a long time coming."
In March 2021, Apple Music announced Budjerah as its latest local Up Next artist, an initiative to identify and showcase rising talent from across Australia and New Zealand. Budjerah said "I'm really excited to be included in Up Next Local on Apple Music for my brand new EP which I wrote with Matt Corby at his studio just down the road from my house. The songs are about different times in my life and all the different emotions that I feel."
His self-titled debut EP was released on 26 March 2021.
In May 2021, Budjerah released "Budjerah (Live At Rainbow Valley)" which was recorded at Matt Corby's titular studio and features a live rendition of each of the four tracks on Budjerah's self-titled debut EP. In addition to Corby, fellow artists Ngaiire, Ainslie Wills, JK-47 and Stevan feature on the new EP.