Sámi

Sámi is a family of languages (11 according to Ethnologue):
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=90977

STREAMABLE ARTISTS

Angelit North Sámi. Siblings Ursula and Tuuni Länsman.
Mari Boine North Sámi . Yoik Jazz / Yoik Rock
transjoik North Sámi, Lule Sámi, Finnish.
Ulla Pirttijärvi North Sámi.

NOT STREAMABLE ARTISTS

Adjágas North Sámi.
amoc Inari Sámi.
Deatnogátte Nuorat North Sámi.
Jiella North Sámi.
Niiles Jouni Aikio North Sámi.
Niko Valkeapää North Sámi. ElectroPop Myspace.
Nils-Aslak Valkeapää - Performer of Sami jojk, and poet
Shaman Finnish folk metal band, used to sing in Samic
Sofia Jannok North Sámi. Myspace
Tiina Sanila
Vilddas North Sámi.
Wimme - . Sami yoik singer
Wimme Saari North Sámi.

If you know the Sámi language(s) used by artist, please answer to this thread

Do you know an artist that should be in this list? Please answer to the thread

I'd take the last one off if I were you. All his songs are in Finnish. Sami is a common first name in Finland.

Edit:
I searched some Sámi artists for you:
Niiles Jouni Aikio
Amoc
Jiella
Wimme Saari
Tiina Sanila
Vilddas
Deatnogátte Nuorat (Norwegian)
Nils-Aslak Valkeapää - I always think of him as a poet but he originally became known as a performer of Sami jojk. Read more

Niko Valkeapää is a Sami musician living in Norway, he's made two albums:

* Niko Valkeapää (Duippidit, 2003)
* Sierra (Duippidit, 2004)

Visit his MySpace and listen to his songs!

One that needs including would definitely be Adjágas, a young pop-yoik-duo with a few interesting influences. Good group, this one!

EDIT: transjoik deserves a mention, too. Their music is electronic and not very traditional although they do use yoik as an element.

By the way tartalo, what kind of research about the languages do you mean in the first post?

I only know a few of these. amoc sings in Inari Sámi, Tiina Sanila sings in Skolt Sámi, Wimme Saari and Mari Boine sing in North Sámi.

tartalo said:
Added, thanks.
it would be nice if someone with better knowledge about Sami languages and/or less lazy than me would classify the artists in the appropriate language.


Ah ok. I know that Angelit, Ulla Pirttijärvi, Adjágas, Deatnogátte Nuorat, Jiella, Niiles Jouni Aikio, Niko Valkeapää, Nils-Aslak Valkeapää and Vilddas all perform in North Sámi.

transjoik has used at least North Sámi, Lule Sámi and Finnish in their songs, and one of their albums is a collaboration with a Pakistani singer whose name I can't remember right now. They are one of the few acts that could be best described with the term "world music".

Then I forgot to add one artist, Sofia Jannok, who has a Myspace page with a few songs. She seems to sing in North Sámi (at least the sing titles are in North Sámi) and the yoiking style is North Sámi as well, but I really couldn't tell because of the funny accent as I'm not a native speaker. Liked her music, though. Hope this'll be of help!

I found a couple of Sámi music related posts in a Finnish music blog, with links to a few very good downloadable albums.

Wimme Saari + some general Sámi info

Nils-Aslak Valkeapää

However, as these albums are yoik which can be a very non-verbal style of singing and more like chanting (with only a few words or with simple syllables used instead of words), they are not proper representatives of the actual language of North Sámi as such. Which also kind of raises the question that, strictly speaking and if one wants to go splitting hairs, is there place for yoik artists like Nils-Aslak Valkeapää or Wimme Saari in this group due to the non-verbal nature of their music…?