Animal Ventura
Based in Kingscliff
About this act
Animal Ventura is a singer-songwriter from Kingscliff, New South Wales.
Fernando Aragones, Brazilian-born and now based in Byron Bay, performs as Animal Ventura, fusing the funky rhythms of his native South America with a coastal, indie-folk sound rooted in the Australian shoreline. Vocals move between English and Portuguese across a set, carrying that dual heritage through the songwriting rather than keeping the two sides separate. The result sits somewhere between two distinct musical traditions, built specifically around that crossover rather than leaning fully into either one.
