Fred Leone yarns about rap, traditional dance and social change

Fred Leone dances with a Traditional Dance Group Source: Alfred Robert Summers

Fred Leone is a Badjtala, Gurruwani, Tongan and South Sea Island Man.

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Fred is a Hip Hop and Rap artist who has been performing Traditional Dance since he was fourteen.  

He is passionate about preserving his language and culture, that of the Badtjala people of Fraser Island.

Fred spoke to Living Black about what maintaining culture means to him, as well as his new group, Yarwah.