I'm trying to get in touch with my blood. My great grandmother was 100% Norwegian Sámi. I'm not sure what happened by the time I was born but almost all of the tradition and language was lost, especially since I grew up in a Christian household in the states. My great great grandparents lived in homes built from the forest around them amongst the animals. I apologize for talking a lot I tend to do that haha. This is beautiful and I really enjoyed it. I wish to learn joik eventually.
Colonialism is what happened, mate. The great eraser of life. Keep resisting. Keep following that curiosity. Keep tracing back those roots, even if the threads you pick up feel awkward and foreign at first. May your ancestors guide you.
My grandma was born 1914, in North Dakota, spoke only Norwegian until about 14/15 years old. They were 100% self-sufficient farm. Her parents were immigrated from a farm near Lapland/ Lillehammer Norway. She moved to Minneapolis and speaking Norwegian & keeping traditions were frowned upon. So she never passed the language & traditions down except for some food.
Great! Our ancestors were so close to mother earth; What a deep and moving sound; It evokes a functional reaction within ones organ tissue, similar to a wolf's call in the dark of night.
The singer is Sofia Jannok, a well known sami singer, stop saying bullshit, samis have only around 6% of their genetics that come from Asia, and in majority from Yakuts people.
I just found out about the Sami today too, so beautiful. I am blessed by this music and I am a conventional opera singer but this is just so free, resonant and totaly exquisite! Just like the wind
Long live Sami nation and its beautiful culture. I hope the Sami way of life will endure and I sure hope some sort of administrative Samiland, not dissected by national borders, can be established across northern Scandinavia.
Yeah but it's just a region across the four countries the Sami inhabit. It has no administrative rights, just certain "rules" set in place meant to protect the Sami way of life.
I'm sami myself, and have lived in the areas where they are from. The culture is something for itself, but many sami are alcoholics now. It became that way after they forced all the sami to abandon their culture and started selling them strong alcoholic spirits in the 1900s
Sleekoduck (just because this is the internet and some people are rude i want to add a disclaimer-i don’t mean this in any bad way just a kind correction) I am not sure where you got the idea that Sámi are related to Britons and Scottish folks but that’s unfortunately not true. I’m Sámi and we are pretty genetically distinct from all groups of Europeans, especially Scottish and Britons. Do you have any sources on this?
This is just SO incredibly beautiful, powerful and elemental. I don't like wind, it makes me grumpy but this will change my relationship to it. Thank you.
I just learned about joik today and searched to hear what it sounds like, out of curiosity. And of my goodness!!! It so soothing and yet fulfilling to the soul. Why is this not known more across the world....
I just came back from Norway! Where l learned about the Sami people! And their beautiful music! I wish them all the best for the future, may their treasures they have stay safe and carry on, if i ever go back to Norway 🇳🇴 I'll be great to see them perform, good luck to the SAMI PEOPLE! ❤
As someone with mixed Scandinavian heritage, I've known only of my Nordic ancestry. Learning now about the Sami has been beautiful, and this song is gorgeous! And knowing so many people with Scandinavian ancestry who are talented, soulful singers, I'm just amazed at the way music can affect generations!
Just beautiful. I only heard about this style a while ago when I started to learn Swedish, though this has no Swedish words! It's so simple and deep at the same time. Great that the Saami have managed to keep it alive for so long😊
Лучший йойк у Софии Яннок... С её помощью и узнала о происхождении столь дивного саамского песнопения. Горестно, ибо сейчас она реже проявляет себя на сцене. Хочется, чтобы весь мир прознал о её редком таланте!!!!!!!!!
This Sami joik is a copy of the original version and personal joik/ chant of the the sami reindeer herder of Mikkel Mikkelsen Buljo, "Mihkkelas Mihkkal" fram Kautokeino, Norway.
I was reading an old National Geographic of Nov 2011 the other day where I came to read of the Sami people and their Yoik. In it I read the Lutheran pastors who converted the Sami forbade yoiking calling it devil's music. But it is so hauntingly beautiful.
indeed, destroyed and burned their drums and regalia, artifacts stolen for later display in museums...awful persecution back in the day. Strong people. The culture prevails.
I think I just learned how to breathe again. Something heavy and oppressing, like all of humanity with its rules and ways and conflicts just melted like water and flew down, then evaporated to mist. And now I am breathing. Steady, slowly, easily. As if somehow I learned what every tree and animal, every wisp of wind does not need to learn: what existence is. Just this.
@@mattlibra3139 hmmm i dont think all indigenous people are the same. I am also a native from another part of the world with a very ancient culture and we are completely different
@@scivnce4273 ahh I’m sorry if I made it sound like just because the Sami are indigenous I think they’re the same as others! That’s totally not what I meant!
This is actually a person joik made for Mikkel Buljo, which has been mislabeled Yoik of the wind. The family do not appreciate this appropriation, and the right name should be placed in the description of this video
God bless the Sapmi (Sammi). Im Apache Kickapoo and nahua purepecha ndn which is what I am full blooded native American much love. I wonder if we are connected something is telling me yes
Sammis are beautiful Im 100% native american apache of north america full blood ndn only and i feel the song all the way there has to be a connection with at least one tribe for the sammi people LAKOTA Kickapoo or maybe my tribe something seems very native american about them its quite obvious unless your deaf and disrespectful to the sammis we the ancestors 💯🦅🌎🙏🏾
It's because of videos like this that my culture stays alive. Sofia is awesome and a true daughter to her people.
this stuff has roots deep within prehistoric european history. to get to hear it today is just amazing.
well the culture is asian in origin but yeah we are all one in the end
@@StaminatorBlader THERE IS SAMMI EUROPEANS AND ASIANS
@@KS-yn5zw did you read what i said or are just replying to an imaginary comment? the CULTURE is of asian ORIGIN...
@@StaminatorBlader I read about that
@@KS-yn5zw mikä saatanan "sammi"?
I am really beginning to adore Saami culture. This is simply beautiful.
Thank you my dear :)
Evokes those wild landscapes in such a visceral way. The ancestors are smiling on this one.
They sure are ;)
I'm trying to get in touch with my blood. My great grandmother was 100% Norwegian Sámi. I'm not sure what happened by the time I was born but almost all of the tradition and language was lost, especially since I grew up in a Christian household in the states. My great great grandparents lived in homes built from the forest around them amongst the animals. I apologize for talking a lot I tend to do that haha. This is beautiful and I really enjoyed it. I wish to learn joik eventually.
Colonialism is what happened, mate. The great eraser of life. Keep resisting. Keep following that curiosity. Keep tracing back those roots, even if the threads you pick up feel awkward and foreign at first. May your ancestors guide you.
My mom is 100% and I am the first in our family since my great-great grandma to wear a gákti. It feels great to reconnect with who we really are.
Could you talk some more to us?
Me too, family.
My grandma was born 1914, in North Dakota, spoke only Norwegian until about 14/15 years old.
They were 100% self-sufficient farm.
Her parents were immigrated from a farm near Lapland/ Lillehammer Norway.
She moved to Minneapolis and speaking Norwegian & keeping traditions were frowned upon.
So she never passed the language & traditions down except for some food.
Great! Our ancestors were so close to mother earth; What a deep and moving sound; It evokes a functional reaction within ones organ tissue,
similar to a wolf's call in the dark of night.
That is a profound description
You guys have a cool culture. Hope you all keep it alive inside yourselves.
The severe beauty of the North...
The singer is Sofia Jannok, a well known sami singer, stop saying bullshit, samis have only around 6% of their genetics that come from Asia, and in majority from Yakuts people.
@@PiscineBabylonienne ...did...did you forget the sámi people live in the far north?
@@BainPlays I was answering to a previous and deleted commentary lmao
@@PiscineBabylonienne yakuts are from asia tho *face palm*
@@megaloblabber2948 THE COMMENT HAS BEEN DELETED FFS
This speaks directly to my wild heart. Huge love and respect to the Sámi and all Indigenous people around the world.
When I can't sleep I come here and I find peace. Thank you for keeping this beautiful tradition alive.
I just found out about the Sami today too, so beautiful. I am blessed by this music and I am a conventional opera singer but this is just so free, resonant and totaly exquisite! Just like the wind
Thank you
my first time I hear about the sami nation. may you all be blessed for ever. thank you for the beautiful music
Long live Sami nation and its beautiful culture. I hope the Sami way of life will endure and I sure hope some sort of administrative Samiland, not dissected by national borders, can be established across northern Scandinavia.
Yeah but it's just a region across the four countries the Sami inhabit. It has no administrative rights, just certain "rules" set in place meant to protect the Sami way of life.
Sapmi!
DerafsheKavian I wish the same for the Kurds!
You forgot Sweden.
Never going to happen, they're a minority in their own region
Magical 🧝♀️ . Love you Sami brothers n sisters. Be proud of who you are and what you have. For most of the world has lost what you still possess. ♥
I absolutely love Sami culture, so beautiful.
i used to do this when i was a kid in the forest there wasn't a word for it though because i live england though sami are truly a kind mannered people
Fellow English person here, I used to do this too! I'd also do a lot of kulning style singing/ humming without having a word for that either
The Sami are related to the Britons and Scottish people in the UK. Maybe you have a Celtic (kind of a misnomer) soul.
I'm sami myself, and have lived in the areas where they are from. The culture is something for itself, but many sami are alcoholics now. It became that way after they forced all the sami to abandon their culture and started selling them strong alcoholic spirits in the 1900s
@@sleekoduck the Sámi are the native people of Scandinavia that migrated from Mongolia around 2,500-12,000 years ago.
Sleekoduck (just because this is the internet and some people are rude i want to add a disclaimer-i don’t mean this in any bad way just a kind correction) I am not sure where you got the idea that Sámi are related to Britons and Scottish folks but that’s unfortunately not true. I’m Sámi and we are pretty genetically distinct from all groups of Europeans, especially Scottish and Britons. Do you have any sources on this?
Hearing this makes me feel so light and happy… timeless
I'm so PROUD to be Sea Sámi!!! Love listening to you joik!!
Mun ráhkistan leat mearra Sámi
Gorgeous...from a Plains Cree Woman in Canada.
This is just SO incredibly beautiful, powerful and elemental. I don't like wind, it makes me grumpy but this will change my relationship to it. Thank you.
Amazing to revisit this in 2024 amd see how far Sofia has come. But i ❤ the rawness of her early days. Such an inspiration
So pure, angelic & terribly beautiful
The Sami have such a beautiful and enchanting culture. It takes you back to a more natural state of mind, where you feel at one with nature.
Haunting & reflective... brought me to tears. Beautiful.
I just learned about joik today and searched to hear what it sounds like, out of curiosity. And of my goodness!!! It so soothing and yet fulfilling to the soul. Why is this not known more across the world....
wind can be a breeze, wind can be a hurricane, but wind gives life.. lives before us and will live after us, appreciate the moment you have with it
Just listen to how emotional the wind expresses itself in different intensities.
I love saami people and culture. This is beautiful and it sent shivers down my spine🥲
Wonderful. 💓
May the Sami and all the other natives get their origin and habitat.
Habitat??
Incredibly fascinating culture, love from Italy
I just came back from Norway! Where l learned about the Sami people! And their beautiful music! I wish them all the best for the future, may their treasures they have stay safe and carry on, if i ever go back to Norway 🇳🇴 I'll be great to see them perform, good luck to the SAMI PEOPLE! ❤
Long live Sámis ❤️💚💛💙
Ollu giitu, Sofia
As someone with mixed Scandinavian heritage, I've known only of my Nordic ancestry. Learning now about the Sami has been beautiful, and this song is gorgeous! And knowing so many people with Scandinavian ancestry who are talented, soulful singers, I'm just amazed at the way music can affect generations!
Just beautiful. I only heard about this style a while ago when I started to learn Swedish, though this has no Swedish words! It's so simple and deep at the same time. Great that the Saami have managed to keep it alive for so long😊
There's something magical in this performance!
Лучший йойк у Софии Яннок... С её помощью и узнала о происхождении столь дивного саамского песнопения. Горестно, ибо сейчас она реже проявляет себя на сцене. Хочется, чтобы весь мир прознал о её редком таланте!!!!!!!!!
Just returned from Northern Norway and heard a lot of the Samis. Beautiful sound
This Sami joik is a copy of the original version and personal joik/ chant of the the sami reindeer herder of Mikkel Mikkelsen Buljo, "Mihkkelas Mihkkal" fram Kautokeino, Norway.
I was reading an old National Geographic of Nov 2011 the other day where I came to read of the Sami people and their Yoik. In it I read the Lutheran pastors who converted the Sami forbade yoiking calling it devil's music. But it is so hauntingly beautiful.
indeed, destroyed and burned their drums and regalia, artifacts stolen for later display in museums...awful persecution back in the day. Strong people. The culture prevails.
Christianity has ruined many things
well its actually nature music which unlike the devil actually exists and is feared by abrahamic religions
This is awesome greetings from Turkey :)
Trugarez evit gwerz gant hec’ h ene ! Merci pour cette complainte avec son âme !
Quelle merveille ! Merci !
Makes me more happy to be sea sámi to hear good joik like this :-)
This is beautiful, mystical music
A hymn to freedom of the Sami people.
Absolutely SOULFUL! Love this!
I think I just learned how to breathe again.
Something heavy and oppressing, like all of humanity with its rules and ways and conflicts just melted like water and flew down, then evaporated to mist.
And now I am breathing. Steady, slowly, easily. As if somehow I learned what every tree and animal, every wisp of wind does not need to learn: what existence is.
Just this.
Kinda cringe not gonna lie
lovely.
Very beautiful, my the gods of the north rise from their slumber in our hearts 💞
For some, they never slept 😉
"How Disney uses Language"
brought me here
Same!
Same
Frozen
SAME
same
Pure awesomeness. Much love from Greece !! :)
Omg I didn’t know anything about this until 5 minutes ago. Heard 2 yoiks so far & cried both times. This is mind blowing. So beautiful & powerful.
Here from Wikipedia. Read about it, knew I had to check it out. It's really nice!
Thank you for this beauty, and this truth.
That's Sofia Jannok, my favorite Sami singer, also my mom's favorite as well. Lovely song! :D
this spings kind of elemental song has sprung out of me in my entire life, when feeling good and alone with earth.
LA NATURALEZA EN UNA VOZ MARAVILLOSA
Beautiful. Completely beautiful.
For some reason some aspects remind me of native Americans and native hawaïans very beautiful
That’s most likely because the Sami are actually the indigenous people of Northern Europe!
@@mattlibra3139 hmmm i dont think all indigenous people are the same. I am also a native from another part of the world with a very ancient culture and we are completely different
@@scivnce4273 ahh I’m sorry if I made it sound like just because the Sami are indigenous I think they’re the same as others! That’s totally not what I meant!
great voice! I love folk songs
I love it ! It touched my soul =)
here from eurovision 2019
too!!
12 112 me
Me too 😊
Yes, also here from Eurovision! :-)
So very nice Yoik ever and very fantastic to
Just lovely.
What a beautiful voice, thanks for sharing it
Beautiful song and a beautiful voice.
This is so calming. Thnx for the upload.
Gorgeous, evocative, spine tingling
Spine tinglingly beautiful
Beautiful, so happy to be saami
I'm an American and knew I had some Norwegian ancestry. I had my DNA analyzed and discovered Sami ancestry was part of it. I'm proud of that!
Absolutely stunning. Haunting and beautiful.
This is actually a person joik made for Mikkel Buljo, which has been mislabeled Yoik of the wind. The family do not appreciate this appropriation, and the right name should be placed in the description of this video
So incredibly, breathtakingly beautiful. It's really dusty in here right now for some reason. Yep. Dusty.
why were you cutting onions at your keyboard
No onions this time, just dust. The Onion Ninjas lurk in the shadows until someone whips out that Wicked/Firefly "Defying Gravity" video.
Great name. Are you Aussie?
Reminds me of the Appalachian folk yodeling
So beautiful, thank you! 🙏💓
This gave me goosebumps.
So beautiful.
God bless the Sapmi (Sammi). Im Apache Kickapoo and nahua purepecha ndn which is what I am full blooded native American much love. I wonder if we are connected something is telling me yes
The first earth speaks to me it is above and below and it will never end
Odavno želim da posetim saami zemlju i upoznam narod i način života. ❤️
beautiful "I will try to learn sing like her
Beautiful Voice and beautiful self expression!
Beautiful! Absolutely beautiful. You warm my heart.
vakkert. Takk for det
When you stay in this beautiful land, you can feel the yoik
so proud to be part of Saamelainen
Discovered yesterday, i love this song 💖
Kaunis/ underbar/herlig ❣️
My friend Elaine Sukava passed away today. She was Finnish and she loved music. Does anyone have an appropriate yoik for a time like this?
SOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo beautiful !!!!!
She is channeling. Thanks.
Strength and elegance...
Kyllä!!!! :)
I spent some of my formative years in British Columbia, Canada's Pacific coast. I can't help but notice the similarity of this to First Nations music.
The call of nature, the Aurora Borealis! 😍🇸🇯🇸🇪🇸🇯😇🙏🏼🐺 and the wolf Odin! 😊 Elsa! Sami culture and Vikings, I love Scandinavia! ❤️😍😿
Lovely voice, beautiful chant!
Fucking great, greetings from Finland.
Kiitos!
So beautiful
Beautiful...
Beautiful ❤️💨
Though I should say that her full name is Sofia Jannok since it's nowhere in either the title or description.
It said it in the beginning od the video
Sammis are beautiful
Im 100% native american apache of north america full blood ndn only and i feel the song all the way there has to be a connection with at least one tribe for the sammi people LAKOTA Kickapoo or maybe my tribe something seems very native american about them its quite obvious unless your deaf and disrespectful to the sammis we the ancestors 💯🦅🌎🙏🏾