Jacinta Price: Country Liberal Party senator's life as a RAPPER and singer trends now
Jacinta Price has a little-known history as a hip hop artist and country music singer, Daily Mail Australia can reveal.
The Country Liberal Party senator was previously a Triple J 'Unearthed' artist whose singing style was compared to 1980s icon Tracy Chapman.
The Northern Territory politician surprised her followers last week by revealing her not-so-distant past as a musician in a Facebook post.
A Triple J online profile of Ms Price says she played violin as a youngster before joining local hip hop outfits Flava 4 and C-Mobs.
She has also written her own songs and performed as a solo artist.
Conservative politician Jacinta Price has revealed her musical past and released a solo album in 2013
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Her Spotify account features her 2013 solo album Dry River, which is as a mix of folk, soul and country music - and sheds light on her life growing up in Central Australia.
The album cover features Ms Price in a shimmering brown and gold dress, laying on a patch of red earth.
The title track Dry River is a haunting acapella ballad highlighting her powerful singing voice, while songs like Another Way hint at a country music influence.
Images on the Unearthed site show Price in her younger years exhibiting a daring Mohawk-style hair cut.
Liberal senator Jacinta Price (pictured) has revealed her past life as a hip hop artist before her political career took off in May this year
Ms Price is seen speaking on amendments on the Territory Rights Bill in the Senate chamber at Parliament House in Canberra on December 1, 2022
In her Facebook post divulging her musical past, she threw her support behind musicians who she said work 'in an environment that is challenging at the best of times'.
'As a former singer-song writer and hip hop artist myself I can attest to the challenges. As the wife of a recording artist I continue to share in the challenges,' she wrote.
'Music is for us all and I will always support initiatives that enrich our national identity and the creative well being of us all.'
Ms Price said it was an 'honour' for her and her son, who is currently studying sound design at university, to meet with music industry legend Michael Chugg and her childhood idol Jenny Morris.
Ms Price burst onto the political and public scene after being elected in May as a Senator for the Northern Territory. She was previously a former deputy mayor of Alice Springs.
Jacinta Price's music has been compared to that of U.S singer Tracy Chapman
She is known for being a passionate advocate for Indigenous communities, as well as being one of the fiercest critics of the Labor government's proposed Voice to Parliament.
A feud between Ms Price and Labor's Linda Burney has recently dominated the headlines after Ms Price slammed the Minister for Indigenous Affairs for visiting Aboriginal communities 'dripping in Gucci'.
In her Facebook post on Wednesday, Ms Price lamented working in 'a hostile work environment' but that she is 'grateful' for being able to 'reconnect with music creativity.'
Jacinta Price said it was an 'honour' to meet with Aussie music industry legend Michael Chugg and singer Jenny Morris. (Pictured left to right: Jenny Morris, Jacinta Price, Michael Chugg and Price's son)
Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson has launched a scathing attack on Jacinta Price and the National Party for opposing the Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
The land rights activist claimed Senator Price was caught in a 'redneck celebrity vortex' and was being used by shadowy right-wing forces to 'punch down on other black fellas'.
Senator Price, a longtime opponent of the Voice, came out with some of her most vicious criticism of the proposal on Monday as Nationals declared they would oppose it.
She claimed the advisory body would divide Australia by race and said calls to support the 'failed model' amounted to 'emotional blackmail'.
The outspoken MP also described Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney as visiting remote Aboriginal communities 'dripping with Gucci'.
Mr Pearson in response claimed Senator Price, who is a member of the Country Liberal Party but caucuses with the Nationals, had taken over the 'squalid little political party' and its 'kindergarten child' leader David Littleproud should just resign.
Jacinta Price, a longtime opponent of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, came out with some of her most vicious criticism on Monday as Nationals declared they would oppose it.
He compared her celebrity to that of One Nation leader Pauline Hanson during her rise to fame as an anti-Asian immigration senator in the 1990s.
'She's caught in a vortex that reminds me of Pauline Hanson 26 years ago,' he told ABC radio.
'It's a celebrity vortex, it's very compelling, it gets her out in front of people and it gets a lot of cheers but it's also a redneck celebrity vortex.'
Mr Pearson claimed right-wing think-tanks like the Institute of Public Affairs and the Centre for Independent Studies were pulling the strings.
He claimed these institutions spent years plotting Senator Price's rise so their views could be given credibility by an indigenous politician.
'They're the string pullers, they're the ones who have lined up behind Jacinta,' he said.
'This has been a campaign in the making of the past three years and their strategy was to find a black fella to punch down on other black fellas, and it's very difficult to combat.
'The bullets are fashioned by the CIS and the IPA but... it's a black hand pulling the trigger. This is been in the making for years now even before Jacinta entered parliament.'
Daily Mail Australia has sought comment from Senator Price.
Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson launched a scathing attack on Senator Price and the National Party for opposing the Indigenous Voice to Parliament
Mr Pearson said the end result would be continued suffering for indigenous people if Australians listened to her and rejected the Voice.
'I sincerely believe this is a tragic situation a tragic celebrity vortex that will make something of a political career for Jacinta but will produce no solutions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians,' he said.
'I discern in Jacinta's rhetoric [as] no solutions for people back at Aurukun, for people at Yuendumu, for my people.'
Mr Pearson said it was clear Senator Price was the real leader of the Nationals because the party's opposition to the Voice was a 'a complete turnaround' from its previous position.
'It's completely inconsistent with the history of the National party members' respectful engagement with the idea of a voice,' he said.
He said numerous Nationals MP told him they supported the Voice because they had Aboriginal constituents in favour of it.
'They see Aboriginal people every day, Aboriginal people enter their doors of the offices,' he said.
But Mr Pearson believed opposing the Voice just pushed the Nationals further into irrelevance and 'decent conservatives' like independent MP Bob Katter, who claims indigenous heritage, and many Liberal Party members would support it.
'Uncle Bob says this Labor has one chance to get this Voice to Parliament right,' he said.
'Bob Katter is a conservative [but he] is a person who has real empathy and he takes Aboriginal people seriously. He shares the pain that his Aboriginal brothers and sisters are enduring.
'Now, unfortunately, there are two camps and I believe that the Katter, the decent conservatives, will go with us when it goes to a referendum.
'After all, it's just a squalid little political party, the Nationals, that is currently controlled by a kindergarten child. It is only the National party that have made this decision.'
But Mr Pearson believed 'decent conservatives' like independent MP Bob Katter (pictured), who claims indigenous heritage, would support it
Mr Pearson reminded Australians that it was Liberal former prime minister John Howard who got the ball rolling on constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians in 2007.
Mr Howard opposes the Voice, but Mr Pearson said even if that wasn't what he envisaged when he started the process 25 years ago, it was what it ended with.
'But who can arrogate to themselves that kind of presumption that their
