Mari Boine The Shadow

Mari Boine, previously known as Mari Boine Persen, (born 8 November 1956) is a Norwegian Sami musician known for having added jazz and rock to the yoiks of her native people. Gula Gula (first released by Iđut, 1989, later rereleased by Real World) was her breakthrough release, and she continued to record popular albums throughout the 1990s. Boine was born and raised in Gámehisnjárga, a village on the river Anarjohka in Karasjok municipality in Finnmark, in the far north of Norway. Her parents were Sami (Lapps). They made a living from salmon fishing and farming. She grew up steeped in the region s natural environment, but also amidst the strict Laestadian Christian movement with discrimination against her people: for example, singing in the traditional Sami joik style was considered the devil s work. The local school that she attended reflected a very different world from her family s. All the teaching was in Norwegian.