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Kate Ceberano Has Spent 40 Years Trying To Figure Herself Out

5/24/20261 hr 17 min

In this episode of No Filter, Kate Langbroek sits down with ARIA Hall of Fame inductee Kate Ceberano for a conversation that feels less like a formal interview and more like two women circling the biggest questions of identity, ambition, creativity and reinvention together.

There’s also a deeply personal connection between them that slowly reveals itself throughout the episode, shaping the intimacy and honesty of the conversation in unexpected ways.

Kate Ceberano reflects on growing up in Melbourne’s music scene, the chaos and excess she witnessed as a young artist, and the ways drugs and alcohol shaped — and destroyed — parts of the industry around her. She speaks candidly about feeling like an outsider for much of her career, navigating the boys’ club of Australian music, and the opportunities she walked away from, including a role in Strictly Ballroom that she still thinks about today.

The conversation also moves into marriage, motherhood, ageing, creativity, identity, and what it means to still be searching for yourself after forty years in the spotlight.

After last years sell‑out national tour, Kate Ceberano is returning with an “encore” of her "Australian Made Tour” - Tickets at KateCeberano.Com

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CREDITS:

Guest: Kate Ceberano

Host: Kate Langbroek

Group Executive Producer: Naima Brown

Executive Producer: Bree Player

Assistant Producer: Coco Lavigne

Audio and Video Producer: Josh Green

Social Media Producer: Olivia Colman

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First 90 seconds
  1. Kate Langbroek· Host0:00

    So you sit down, I had the ugly conversation with my husband. I'm like, "This has been great. We've really enjoyed each other."

  2. Kate Ceberano· Guest0:06

    Mm.

  3. Kate Langbroek· Host0:06

    "We've really had the very best life-" Mm ... you could possibly wish for."

  4. Kate Ceberano· Guest0:09

    Mm.

  5. Kate Langbroek· Host0:09

    Um, I really wanna get pregnant.

  6. Kate Ceberano· Guest0:12

    Mm.

  7. Kate Langbroek· Host0:13

    And I really don't give a shit what you think about that.

  8. Kate Ceberano· Guest0:15

    [laughs] Ah.

  9. Kate Langbroek· Host0:16

    [gentle music] Hi, I'm Kate Langbroek. There are some guests where the conversation begins before the microphones are even turned on, and Kate Ceberano is absolutely one of them. This is a slightly unusual episode of No Filter, a very personal one, because Kate Ceberano and I already know each other, and I think you can feel that intimacy almost immediately in this chat. What unfolds is less a formal interview and more two women sitting down together to talk honestly about creativity, ambition, aging, marriage, motherhood, music, and what it actually costs to build a life as an artist. We talk about the opportunities Kate turned down, the career highs and heartbreaks, the pressure of constantly reinventing yourself, and why at nearly 60 she feels more certain of who she is than ever before. There are stories about Melbourne in the '80s, punk music, motherhood, Kylie Minogue, Tom Cruise, coconut cake, and the strange intensity of surviving four decades in the spotlight

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