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 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.
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 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
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....
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.
They're mainly not words, just sounds to express a certain feeling or the essence of either a person or an object. Most joiks will contain at least a few words, like the name of the person or object being joiked, while others are completely void of any words. Some are epics or stories, and obviously have many words.
@@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!
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😊
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! ❤
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.
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!
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
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.
Beautiful song❤ I came here because of the music from the movie Uvgrunden. It sents shivers down my spine...like from a live before✨️ does anyone know the name of the song played in the film Uvgrunden? Thx
I am really beginning to adore Saami culture. This is simply beautiful.
Thank you my dear :)
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'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.
Evokes those wild landscapes in such a visceral way. The ancestors are smiling on this one.
They sure are ;)
Gorgeous...from a Plains Cree Woman in Canada.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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?
I absolutely love Sami culture, so beautiful.
my first time I hear about the sami nation. may you all be blessed for ever. thank you for the beautiful music
I'm so PROUD to be Sea Sámi!!! Love listening to you joik!!
Mun ráhkistan leat mearra Sámi
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. ♥
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.
So pure, angelic & terribly beautiful
Haunting & reflective... brought me to tears. Beautiful.
Hearing this makes me feel so light and happy… timeless
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!!!!!!!!!
Amazing to revisit this in 2024 amd see how far Sofia has come. But i ❤ the rawness of her early days. Such an inspiration
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
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....
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.
This is awesome greetings from Turkey :)
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.
There's something magical in this performance!
Trugarez evit gwerz gant hec’ h ene ! Merci pour cette complainte avec son âme !
Just returned from Northern Norway and heard a lot of the Samis. Beautiful sound
Are these words or deeply symbolic sounds to name/express the spirits?
They're mainly not words, just sounds to express a certain feeling or the essence of either a person or an object. Most joiks will contain at least a few words, like the name of the person or object being joiked, while others are completely void of any words. Some are epics or stories, and obviously have many words.
Just listen to how emotional the wind expresses itself in different intensities.
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
LA NATURALEZA EN UNA VOZ MARAVILLOSA
Wonderful. 💓
May the Sami and all the other natives get their origin and habitat.
Habitat??
Incredibly fascinating culture, love from Italy
I love saami people and culture. This is beautiful and it sent shivers down my spine🥲
Makes me more happy to be sea sámi to hear good joik like this :-)
That's Sofia Jannok, my favorite Sami singer, also my mom's favorite as well. Lovely song! :D
Quelle merveille ! Merci !
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!
Beautiful, so happy to be saami
Here from Wikipedia. Read about it, knew I had to check it out. It's really nice!
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😊
This is beautiful, mystical music
Long live Sámis ❤️💚💛💙
Ollu giitu, Sofia
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! ❤
Absolutely SOULFUL! Love this!
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
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!
A hymn to freedom of the Sami people.
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
Pure awesomeness. Much love from Greece !! :)
Thank you for this beauty, and this truth.
So very nice Yoik ever and very fantastic to
Gorgeous, evocative, spine tingling
Spine tinglingly beautiful
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.
Beautiful. Completely beautiful.
"How Disney uses Language"
brought me here
Same!
Same
Frozen
SAME
same
Very beautiful, my the gods of the north rise from their slumber in our hearts 💞
For some, they never slept 😉
Beautiful song❤ I came here because of the music from the movie Uvgrunden. It sents shivers down my spine...like from a live before✨️ does anyone know the name of the song played in the film Uvgrunden? Thx
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?
Kiitos!
this spings kind of elemental song has sprung out of me in my entire life, when feeling good and alone with earth.
great voice! I love folk songs
What a beautiful voice, thanks for sharing it
Odavno želim da posetim saami zemlju i upoznam narod i način života. ❤️
I love it ! It touched my soul =)
Just lovely.
Kaunis/ underbar/herlig ❣️
This is so calming. Thnx for the upload.
Beautiful song and a beautiful voice.
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?
So beautiful.
Absolutely stunning. Haunting and beautiful.
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.
so proud to be part of Saamelainen
This gave me goosebumps.
Strength and elegance...
Kyllä!!!! :)
바람의 요이크, 좋네요~
SOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo beautiful !!!!!
Beautiful Voice and beautiful self expression!
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.
What similarity to the native music "vidala" of the Argentine northwest and part of Bolivia for the song, the rhythm, and the musical instrument.
beautiful "I will try to learn sing like her
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
Beautiful...
She is channeling. Thanks.
So beautiful
here from eurovision 2019
too!!
12 112 me
Me too 😊
Yes, also here from Eurovision! :-)
Lovely voice, beautiful chant!
So beautiful, thank you! 🙏💓
vakkert. Takk for det
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!
The first earth speaks to me it is above and below and it will never end
Beautiful!
Lady Fairy Blessing You!7,1k like
Sámi halkı Türktür ve onlar bizim kardeşimizdir. Türkiye den selamlar.
Beautiful! Absolutely beautiful. You warm my heart.