Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Frank Yamma is not big on small talk when we meet. It's nothing personal, I've been told, that's just him. Yamma and I are both 44, but ...

You can hear the outback in Frank Yamma’s music, and that’s not just a figure of speech. The Pitjantjatjara singer-songwriter, who hails from the drylands of Central Australia, sings about the bush, ...

Before Frank Yamma was old enough to speak, he was absorbing language and music. Growing up, instruments were a regular feature around the family home and it wasn’t long before he and his brothers ...

Frank Yamma, National Folk Festival, Canberra 2014(Jie Dong) Frank Yamma is a Pitjantjatjara man from the central desert whose songs of love and loss, the spectre of alcohol abuse and the healing ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Pitjantjatjara singer Frank Yamma returns to Melbourne this month in the midst of a storm of international acclaim to launch an aptly ...

Frank Yamma laughs when I begin the interview, asking whether he would prefer to be called ‘Uncle’ or ‘Tjamu.’ Despite ‘Uncle’ being the name of his latest album, he shrugs his shoulders, and replies, ...

ASTREET-BUSKER at the age of six, and a stage performer at nine, self-taught guitarist Frank Yamma has won international acclaim as the voice of Australia’s Central Desert. His songs speak of the ...