In 2019, while studying a media degree at the University of Adelaide, Elsy Wameyo had to make a call: do her exam or go to a music festival? That decision is practically a rite of passage for young Australians – but for Wameyo the stakes were higher. She’d been invited to perform.
At that time, the Adelaide-based rapper, singer and producer had only released two singles, but it was her dream to be a journalist or news anchor – and she was keenly aware of the Sliding Doors of it all. “I was just sitting there going, ‘Oh my gosh, this is the day I have to literally decide what I’m doing with my life.’ Of course, I played the festival,” she says, slipping into a semi-sarcastic drawl: “’Cause I live life on the edge.”
