Jacinta Price’s secret career as a rapper before starting politics is revealed as re-surfaced footage shows a side of the senator you’ve never seen before

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price talks about her career as a singer and rapper before she became a political heavyweight – while the video is reminiscent of her performance on stage.

Unearthed footage shows the Country Liberal Party Senator sang with hip-hop group Catch the Fly at a concert in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, in 2011.

Mrs. Price sings original tunes from Catch the Fly along with two other members of the group.

The musical trio had performed at the concert to raise money for the victims of the 2010 to 2011 Queensland floods.

Ms. Price revealed how instrumental music was in her life growing up.

The Country Liberal Party senator revealed how instrumental music was in her life growing up

“Music was always a big part of our lives growing up, my parents played all kinds of music and there was a real expression for music in the house,” she shared The Daily Telegraph.

Ms Price explained that there has always been a “creative impulse” in her family, whether it was expressed in music, art or words.

Her mother, Bess Nungarrayi Price, like her daughter, is an Indigenous visual artist and politician. She is best known for her paintings.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Price’s father, Dave Price, is a former teacher and holds a Masters of Letters.

The Senator’s introduction to singing began when she began performing in the school choir and eisteddfods in elementary school.

She also played the violin from the age of ten, before becoming hip-hip, because at the time she thought violin was ‘daggy’.

“I probably started performing hip-hop from the age of 15 with a group of cousins ​​and school friends in a group we called Flava 4,” she said.

Flava 4 later morphed into the hip-hop group Catch the Fly, where Ms. Price under the stage name Sassy J.

Young Mrs. Price turned to hip-hop and started a group with classmates and cousins ​​called Flava 4, which later became Catch the Fly.

Mrs. Price performed for several years as a member of Catch the Fly under the stage name Sassy J

She continued to perform with the hip-hop group before focusing on writing her own songs and performing as a solo artist

She has also written her own songs and performed as a solo artist.

After years of performing with the hip-hop group, she turned to folk, soul and country music with the release of her solo album, Dry River, in 2013.

Dry River sheds light on Mrs Price’s life growing up in Central Australia.

The album cover features Mrs. Price in a shimmering brown and gold dress, lying on a patch of red soil.

The title track Dry River is a haunting acapella ballad that highlights her powerful singing voice, while songs like Another Way indicates an influence of country music.

Ms. Price was also a Triple J ‘Unearthed’ artist whose singing style has been compared to 1980s icon Tracy Chapman.

Images on the Unearthed site show Price in her younger years sporting a bold Mohawk style haircut.

Ms. Price turned to folk, soul and country music with the release of her solo album, Dry River, in 2013

Images on the Triple J Unearthed site show Ms. Price sporting a bold Mohawk style haircut

Looking back at her music career growing up, Ms. Price said there was a connection between that era and her time in politics.

“The whole idea of ​​making music for us as Indigenous youth was that it was about positively influencing our peers and showing that it was wrong to think that all our Aboriginal peers were up to no good,” she said.

In a Facebook post revealing her musical past last year, she supported musicians who she said “work in an environment that is challenging at the best of times.”

“As a former singer-songwriter and hip-hop artist, I can attest to the challenges. As an artist’s wife, I continue to share in the challenges,” she wrote.

“Music belongs to all of us and I will always support initiatives that enrich our national identity and the creative well-being of all of us.”