Honourable prize to Sami artist Mari Boine
The Norwegian Sami musician Mari Boine has been awarded with Norway’s greatest mark of distinction for cultural work, the Anders Jahre Culture Prize.
Mari Boine is Norway’s leading representative for “world music” and is known for having added jazz and rock to the yoiks of her native people.
Boine has earlier been awarded with the Nordic Council Music Prize and several other prestigious prizes for her work and is appointed professor in music science at the Nesna University College, NRK reports.
Read more about the Sami and other indigenous peoples in the Barents Euro-Arctic region at BarentsIndigenous.org
