Cause I know what it feels like If I had lighter skin, maybe I would win Does it make you want to think? Thelma Plum has won Australia s richest music prize, the Vanda and Young Global Songwriting Competition, with her powerful call-out of racism and celebration of Indigenous identity on the indie pop hit
Better In Blak. Â The Gamilaraay singer-songwriter is the first Indigenous composer to win the $50,000 prize in its 12-year history.
Better In Blak, the title track of her acclaimed debut album, was born out of crippling anxiety and angry frustration as she was relentlessly attacked on social media for calling out racist and anti-social behaviour.
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