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Maybe your introduction to Ego Lemos was through his APRA award-winning song for the film Balibo. His soulful compositions take cues from his childhood, when his mother would play the harmonica to lament the death of her family during Timor-Leste’s civil unrest in the ’70s.

Lemos taught himself English from dictionaries and became a translator for an Australian permaculture trainer. He then founded Timor-Leste’s first permaculture NGO and a sustainable agricultural network. In 2009, his debut album, O Hele Le, was produced by Michael Hohnen and Craig Pilkington of Melbourne band The Killjoys and released by Hohnen’s Skinnyfish Music.

‘a singer who represents a positive window into his own country through beautiful, simple folk songs’ —MICHAEL HOHNEN, SKINNYFISH