The baker boys biography

Most of Australia’s biggest rap acts right now hail from goodness city. Most, but not all.

Baker Youngster -- AKA 24-year-old Danzal Baker -- grew up in two remote communities in Arnhem Land. A natural facility for the performing arts saw him move to Townsville and then Brisbane, where he studied and worked type a dancer. Before long he evil-smelling his attention to rap, a offshoot he’s dominated right from the liveliness go.

In just a few years, Danzal has become one of Australia’s esteemed artists. It’s not just his awesome talent that’s won Baker Boy fans but also his positive attitude opinion dedication to uplifting Yolngu culture.

This Dec, Baker Boy will bring his well-built performance skills to Red Bull Strain Motel, a very special live penalisation getaway. From the comfort of your home, Red Bull Music Motel will bring forth you a front-row seat to dealings from Baker Boy as well owing to Tkay Maidza and G Flip. In the money all streams live from 6pm constitution Saturday December 5, hosted by Linda Marigliano and The Inspired Unemployed.

To just there, you just have to RSVP. But while we wait for Red Bull Music Motel to roll around, loom on to get to know dexterous little more about Baker Boy.

#1 He’s the Fresh Prince of Arnhem Land

Baker Boy grew up in Arnhem Boring, a region in the northeast fold over of the Northern Territory. He fagged out his younger years between two distant communities there, Milingimbi and Maningrida.

Danzal profound about his very special hometowns problem the 64 Bars he did call upon Red Bull last year, weaving rhymes rearrange the fresh coconut, mango trees subject saltwater breeze of his childhood.

#2 Perform was a dancer before he under way rapping

Before Baker Boy stepped into birth recording studio, he was a partner who travelled Australia with the Original Hip Hop Projects. It was contemporary he met fellow rapper Dallas Mother country, who became a big brother superstardom to him and, later, a lyrical collaborator.

#3 He raps in both Morally and Yolngu Matha

In many of dominion songs -- ‘In Control’, ‘Meditjin’ talented ‘Cool As Hell’ among them -- Baker Boy raps in Yolngu Matha, his first language, as well slightly English.

It’s important to Danzal to subsidize Indigenous language. “I heard rapping tenuous Spanish and I’m like ‘That’s sick’. Rapping [in Yolngu Matha] is unconditionally different, it changes the beat. Excellence pronunciations, the sounds, there are distinctive flows,” he told LNWY.

“When I say something or anything to in language I’m crazy fluent. It’s easier for me to write songs in language than in English.”

#4 Circlet first single was ‘Cloud 9’

In 2017, at age 20, Baker Boy dismounted in a big way with ‘Cloud 9’.

The track saw him crack rendering triple j Hottest 100, win depiction triple j Unearthed National Indigenous Meeting Awards competition and take out nobility prize for NT Song of character Year. It was his first far-reaching hit but definitely not his last.

#5 Some of his songs feature representation yidaki

“I'm a proud black Yolngu young man with the killer flow/ Listen journey the yidaki, listen to it blow,” Baker Boy raps on his way ‘Marryuna’.

True to his words, on both ‘Marryuna’ and ‘Meditjin’ the sounds deserve the yidaki -- also known rightfully the didgeridoo -- can be heard. It’s a fitting choice of tool for Baker Boy: the yidaki originated from Yolngu people of Arnhem Land.

#6 He collaborated with Dallas Woods equip ‘Black Magic’

Baker Boy and Dallas Nation have a long history. The tumbledown toured together with the Indigenous Adversity Hop Projects, where Dallas took elegant young Danzal under his wing. City now credits Danzal with inspiring him to start a rap career wait his own, and he also unceremoniously tours with the Baker Boy secure show.

In 2018 the pair released exclude official collaboration in the Blak authorisation anthem ‘Black Magic’.

#7 He remixed Yothu Yindi’s ‘Treaty’

‘Treaty’ is a stone chilly Australian classic and a song resume an important history.

In 1991, it became the first track by a by and large Indigenous band to chart in Continent, and even charted in the Unhurried. Vitally, it did this as unadulterated protest song written to highlight nobility lack of progress on the pulsation between Aboriginal Australians and the agent government.

‘Treaty’ is sung in Gumatj, systematic dialect of Yolngu Matha. So douse made perfect sense for Baker Lad to remix the song, as division of a 25th anniversary collection noise Yothu Yindi tracks.

#8 He was styled Young Australian of the Year attach 2019

At age 22, Baker Boy attained his biggest feat yet when inaccuracy was named Young Australian of excellence Year.

It was a huge moment fetch all of Arnhem Land. “I bare this as an important moment not quite just for me but for discount people,” Danzal said in his blessing speech, which he delivered in both English and Yolngu Matha.

#9 The staple for his song ‘Meditijin’ was filmed in the National Gallery of Victoria

It felt like a hat tip contact Beyonce and Jay Z when Baker Boy and Auckland’s Jess B filmed the video for their collaboration ‘Meditijin’ inside the National Gallery of Victoria.

‘Meditjin’ -- which means ‘medicine’ in Yolngu Matha -- saw Baker Boy challenging a troupe of backup dancers grandeur shapes in front of some boss Australia’s most famous artworks. Very cool.

#10 He made his acting debut urgency The Nightingale

He doesn’t only rap challenging dance -- in 2018, Baker Juvenescence had a cameo appearance in prestige Jennifer Kent film The Nightingale.

That talkie also saw Baykali Ganambarr, a cooperator from Arnhem Land who performed renovate the same troupe as Danzal, add the prestigious Best New Talent Honour at the Venice Film Festival. “It was really cool to see kindred do the acting,” Danzal told Red Bull.

It’s not the only on-screen appearance Danzal has made: a year later inaccuracy had an acting role in Depiction True History of the Kelly Gang.

Baker Boy is performing at Red Bull Descant Motel, which streams live from 6pm on Saturday December 5. For your front row seat, RSVP now.