So I got into theatre, it was Bran Nue Dae in 1993. But yeah, playing didgeridoo, 'cause I auditioned for Bran Nue Dae just to play music. I knew it was a big musical, so I thought, ‘Oh yeah, I'm not bad at didge. I learned off some pretty good mob, so maybe I can get in there’. 'Cause there was a 6-month tour of Australia, so I could just play didge and not have to do much at all, no dancing and singing and acting. I'll just be their didge player. So maybe I can get away with it like that and not do much – get to tour around Australia, just playing didge, wouldn't that be good? Without having to do much, lazy bastard. But yeah, no, it ended up they wanted me to dance, sing and act. So, do a course and then you get selected. So I did that and then ended up in Bran Nue Dae, toured Australia for six months. Then after that did a couple more plays on stage, then got into television and then the rest is history. Yeah, kept on getting other series and little parts in movies and documentaries and mini-series.
I was brought up in Kalgoorlie. Yeah, I was adopted when I was six to eight weeks old, in Derby. My mother already had my older brother and sister and was in an unstable situation. So willingly give me up for adoption, which was lucky for me. But like yeah, no mother likes to give their babies up for adoption. But my mob are from … my grandmother, on my mother's side, yeah, a lot of them live in Broome. But my grandfather was from Lombadina or Djarindjin. In between Broome and Derby there's Cape Leveque, and mostly on the point is Lombadina or Djarindjin, which is Buntjut, people that are Buntjut and their language is Bunyul. And then my grandmother was from Fitzroy Crossing, which is Bunaba. And my father's side was from Northern Territory. I think I met my father when I was 21 but he's since passed away. We buried him in Katherine in 2005. Got to meet my older brother and sister and still two brothers I haven't met yet. They were out bush or somewhere, Daniel and Damien, so... But yeah, that's where my people come from. But yeah, I was adopted, brought up in Kalgoorlie.
