Emily Wurramara spend her infancy on two islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria and at age 6, moved to Brisbane. She is an Indigenous singer/songwriter who wrote her first song at age 7. Emily's father is a Filipino/Chinese/Spanish man who grew up in the provinces of Negros. Her mother is a Warninidlyakwa/ Greek/ Italian/ Turkish woman who grew up on those two islands, Groote Eylandt and Milyakburra (Bickerton Island).