Jessica Hilda Mauboy is an Australian singer, songwriter, and actress. Born and raised in Darwin, Northern Territory, she rose to fame in 2006 on the fourth season of Australian Idol, where she was runner-up and subsequently signed a recording contract with Sony Music Australia.
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Jessica Mauboy is an Australian Aboriginal musician and actress. Through her music and acting roles, she became one of the most successful female Australian artists of the early 2000s.
Mauboy’s second album, Get ’Em Girls (2010), built upon the success of her first album and featured four hit songs. In 2012 she starred in the film The Sapphires. The film is based on the true story of an Aboriginal girl group that entertains U.S. troops during the Vietnam War. By the time she released Beautiful in 2013, Mauboy was one of Australia’s biggest stars.
In 2016 Mauboy appeared on television as the lead actor in The Secret Daughter. She was the first Aboriginal actor to star in the lead role of a commercial drama series. The show’s soundtrack, also named The Secret Daughter, became Mauboy’s first number-one album in Australia.