sami

Sofia was born in 1982 and comes from Gällivare in the top of Sweden. She has always been singing and yoiking and when she was about 11 years old she stepped onto the stage. Since that day she has been performing a lot with her music and also taken part in CD’s, music for film and TV, musicals and other nice events. In the spring of 2006 she went out on tour with Rikskonserter throughout Sweden and southeast Europe. Her solo project on cd with producer Svein Schultz was released in February 2007 and is called White / Ceaskat. Now she is working on an album with her band.

Mari Boine is a sami musician from Norway known for having added jazz and rock to the "yoiks"(Sami traditional music) of her native people. Boine (born 8 November 1956 in Finnmark, Norway) grew up amid the Laestadian Christian movement as well as amidst discrimination against her people. She was asked to perform at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, but refused because she perceived the invitation as an attempt to bring a token minority to the ceremonies. Gula Gula (1989, Real World) was her breakthrough release, and she has continued to record popular albums.