Jessica Mauboy
Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Grey St/ Melbourne St, 4101 South Brisbane Directions
Sat 01.08.2026 19:30
Join Jessica Mauboy for a deeply personal and unforgettable evening in The Story of Me: A Musical Journey Through My Career at QPAC for one night only.
Through music and candid storytelling, Jessica reflects on her extraordinary evolution from a young girl in Darwin to one of Australia’s most celebrated artists. For the first time on stage in this intimate format, she shares the defining moments that shaped her, the career highs, the setbacks, and the resilience it took to keep moving forward.
Audiences will experience heartfelt ballads, reimagined classics and the powerhouse anthems that have defined a generation. Jessica also opens up about stepping away from her long-time record label to reclaim creative control, launching her own music label, and expanding into entrepreneurship with her beauty brand, Desert Rose.
Honest, powerful and uplifting, this special performance offers a rare glimpse into Jessica Mauboy as an artist, entrepreneur and proud Indigenous woman.
Jessica Mauboy – The Story of Me is part of Clancestry.
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Jessica Mauboy
Jessica Hilda Mauboy is an Australian singer, songwriter and actress. Born and raised in Darwin, Northern Territory, she rose to fame in 2006 on the fourth season of Australian Idol, where she was runner-up and subsequently signed a recording contract with Sony Music Australia. After releasing a live album of her Idol performances and briefly being a member of the girl group Young Divas in 2007, Mauboy released her debut studio album, Been Waiting, the following year. It included her first number-one single, "Burn", and became the second highest-selling Australian album of 2009, certified double platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association. Her second studio album, Get 'Em Girls, showcased a harder-edged R&B sound, and produced four platinum singles. Her third studio album, Beautiful, a mixture of dance-oriented tracks, R&B and pop, included the top-ten hits "Pop a Bottle", "Never Be the Same" and "Can I Get a Moment?