I make music that will hopefully change someone's life.

3KND is Melbourne’s first Indigenous owned and managed radio station, providing a vital service not only to the Indigenous community but also to the wider community as a whole. 3KND provides information and entertainment for our community and anyone else who wants to join in.

S T V T I C M O O N

Somewhere in a lucid dream...

Inhale peace, exhale joy. we're gonna be fine. 💜

likes stuff. bit of music. with some mob. travels, coffee and dialogue. 

Maylene Slater-Burns, on stage known as Maylene Yinarr, is a singer-songwriter from Melbourne, Victoria on Kulin lands. Maylene writes to inspire conversations about identity and vulnerability. Her soft ballads are haunting, uplifting and thought-provoking.

Through her parents, Maylene is part of the Kamilaroi, Wiradjuri, Kuku Djungan, and Gangalidda Aboriginal nations. She has family ties to the Yanyuwa, Kuku Yalanji, Arrente, Walpirri, Yorta Yorta, Latji Latji, Wemba Wemba, Gunditjmara, Yuin, Worimi, Ngunnawal, Ngambri and Kulin nations. Kulin is home.

Maylene is a proud activist for Aboriginal self-determination and loudly calls for Federal Government reform over the treatment of First Nations people in Australia.

Listening for the sounds of the land and the universe.

Away from performances, Maylene is the Deputy Chairperson of Songlines Aboriginal Music Corporation, the state peak body supporting Indigenous artists and music based in Victoria. 

She co-runs Mindful Mob, a platform to encourage healing in blackfullas and share quotes, thoughts and inspirations relating to mindfulness, inner life and spirituality. 

Maylene was previously a member of the Dhumba Committee at TEAR Australia, delivered National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day (2014-2018) at SNAICC - National Voice for our Children and assists in all things creative to blackfulla music, healing and expression. 

Follow the adventures: 
Twitter: @maymusefreedom
Instagram: maylenemusefreedom
For bookings or to collaborate, please contact maylenesb@gmail.com
#musefreedom

 TREATY NOW! #sovereignty #stoptheforcedclosures #stoptortureinyouthdetentioncentres

Listen here: soundcloud.com/mayleneslater-burns

Important Acknowledgments:
I'd like to pay my respects to the traditional owners of the land in which I live, the Kulin Nation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from our many nations and all First Nations people whose culture and songline is thriving today, in and across the world.

Rebecca Hart is following