Jessica Mauboy: ‘Why did I do a kookaburra call for Ellen DeGeneres? Did I think that was cool?’

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As a kid, your family encouraged you to sing by signing you up for karaoke at the Darwin airport hotel. What is your go-to karaoke song? Girls Just Want to Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper. Or Love Is a Battlefield. The 80s was on fire sonically. I just love that period of production and sound. It’s so extra, it really brings out the extra in me. You’re hosting this year’s That Blackfella Show, Australia’s first First Nations variety program. How’d you feel getting that call? Oh, the impostor syndrome was real. But I told Jessica to leave the body and bring Jess back and I said, “Abso-freaking-heck yeah.” I’ve not…