Jessica Mauboy is tagged as: pop, rnb, female vocalists, australian, r&b Jessica Hilda Mauboy (born 4 August 1989) is an Australian singer and songwriter who rose to prominence on the fourth season of Australian Idol in 2006, placing second behind winner Damien Leith. Since Idol, she has released two solo albums which were certified gold and platinum respectively. She has multiple singles from her second album “Been Waiting” that have charted extremely well particularly the #1 single “Burn”, “Running Back” and “Because”. She will be the support act for Beyonce Knowles on her upcoming “I Am…” Australian tour. Jessica Hillda Mauboy’s father is of Timorese-Indonesian origin while her mother is of Indigenous Australian, Native American and English descent. At 14, she won the Telstra ‘Road to Tamworth’ competition, with the grand prize being a single recording contract with Sony BMG. She then recorded a country version of Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”. Years later, during Australian Idol, this contract became a source of controversy, with certain media reports stating that already having a recording contract was against the rules of Idol. Grundy Television said Mauboy’s experiences in Tamworth had no bearing on her involvemen... Read More About Jessica Mauboy Biography...  Send Jessica Mauboy ringtones to your cell
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