A joik or yoik (anglicised, where the latter spelling in English conforms with the pronunciation; also named luohti, vuolle, vuelie, or juoiggus in the...
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8 November 1956) is a Norwegian Sámi singer. She combined a form of Sámi joik singing with rock. In 2008, she became a professor of musicology at Nesna...
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In traditional Sámi music songs (e.g. Kvad and Leudd songs) and joiks are important musical expressions of the Sámi people and Sámi languages. The Sámi...
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Norway, the Sami, are known primarily for highly spiritual songs called joik. Classical The first Finnish opera was written by the German-born composer...
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which is only spoken by about 500 people today. The traditional South Sami joik has also largely disappeared from her area and so an important part of her...
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Wulfstan's travel accounts used the Old English Sconeg. The earliest Sámi joik texts written down refer to the world as Skadesi-suolu in Northern Sámi and...
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a Colombian-born Swedish-Sámi singer and jojkare, an interpreter of Sámi joik. He was the winner of Talang Sverige 2014, the Swedish version of Got Talent...
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Transjoik (redirect from Jazz Joik Ensemble)
Transjoik, originally named Frode Fjellheim Jazzjoik Ensemble (founded 1992 in Trondheim, Norway by Frode Fjellheim), is a Norwegian band that plays Sámi...
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Ulla Pirttijärvi-Länsman is a Sami joik singer from the village of Angeli (Sami: Aŋŋel), Finland. She began her career with the music group Angelin Tytöt...
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wooden flutes and drums. Sweden has a significant folk-music scene. The joik, a type of Sami music, is a chant that is part of the traditional Sami animistic...
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