Gina Williams' mother tongue is Noongar, one of the rarest languages on the planet – but she performs her music in it due to a life-changing brush with the Welsh language which has led her to an emotional return to Cardiff. Noongar, the indigenous language of a First Nations people from south western Australia, is spoken by fewer than 400 people today while Welsh is spoken by approximately 892,000 but the two will forever be linked for Gina.
Gina, from Perth, didn't grow up speaking the language of her people after a childhood which saw her relinquished for adoption as a baby. She's now an ambassador for her language through her music, performed alongside her musical partner Guy Ghouse – and they're bringing a show to Wales, the place where Gina had a life-changing realisation.
She said: "By the time I got to my foster home I was a very angry, damaged little girl. As part of my healing I found my biological family and reconnected with my Noongar community. Language has been what held that together."
