Mari Boine is a singer, musician, songwriter and activist from Sápmi, Norway. Her music is infused with her Sami roots (joik) in combination with jazz, rock and electronic sounds. Since her career debut in the early 80s, she has released 14 albums, toured all over the world and collaborated with stellar jazz musicians like Jan Garbarek and Bugge Wesseltoft.
Her astonishing solo album “Gula Gula” was released internationally on Peter Gabriel’s famous RealWorld label. In the same year, 1990, she participated in the breath-taking video clip “One World One Voice” produced by Rupert Hines. "Gula Gula" had won Mari Boine the first of her four "Spellemannsprisen" (Norway’s Grammy Award).
“See The Woman” (2017), a tribute to indigenous poets, was her first album in English.