Marja Mortensson sings at the Liepāja Concert Hall in Latvia. Her yoik and her songs come from the South Saami tradition in which she grew up, and which she carries forward together with the South Saami language and reindeer herding.
Marja Mortensson sings at the Liepāja Concert Hall in Latvia. Her yoik and her songs come from the South Saami tradition in which she grew up, and which she carries forward together with the South Saami language and reindeer herding.
South Sámi singer from Hedmark in Norway, born in 1995, who sings vuelie, the joik tradition of the South Sámi. Joik is a way of calling a person, an animal or a landscape into the room rather than singing about them, and it carries belonging as much as melody. The South Sámi branch is smaller and more endangered than the northern one, and she is one of the voices bringing it back.
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Liepāja, Latvia
