Vocalist

Joik singer

Marja Mortensson, a prize-winning South Sami joik singer, collaborates with Norrbotten Big Band in a concert that explores the boundaries of jazz and vocal traditions.

Marja Mortensson med Norrbotten Big Band

Umeå Folkets Hus

"I write my own South Sami lyrics and songs because there was no South Sami music I could hear growing up," says the young singer Marja Mortensson, who was born into a reindeer herding family in Norway. Like no other, the now 30-year-old experiments with traditional joik singing, continually breathing new life into it – literally, together with jazz tubist Daniel Herskedal in her current project "Båalmaldahkesne – Entwined," which is traveling from Norway to Hamburg for the "Arctic Voices" festival.

Vocalist, Joik singer

Marja Mortensson

Events

Past events

Sep 10, 2026

Marja Mortensson med Norrbotten Big Band · Umeå Jazzstudio

Feb 26, 2026

Marja Mortensson / Daniel Herskedal / Jakop Janssonn · Elbphilharmonie

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