Áilu Valle

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Áilu Valle with his band Trio Boogiemen

Áilu Valle is a musician and the first rapper to rap in the Sami language.

Life

He comes from the village of Kaamasmukka in the municipality of Utsjoki (northernmost municipality in Finland). He began his musical career with rap in English and Finnish, but then switched to his native North Sami . He did at the University of Oulutrained as a teacher and hopes that the use of Northern Sami in music will contribute to the revival of the language among young people. He says about Lapland: You can leave Lapland, but Lapland won't leave you, which is why he returned to Lapland after completing his studies. His first album Dušši dušše duššat (Finnish: Turha vain tuhoutua; pointless to just destroy oneself) was released in 2012. In his second album 7 (2015), Valle combines Sami worldview and Eastern philosophy. His musical role models are Nils-Aslak Valkeapää and the Finnish rapper Asa . Before the release of his first album, he was active in rap formations in the city of Oulu, such as the albums of Pummiharmoniaand Roolipolunveljekset. Texts by Áilu Valle appeared in a poetry anthology in German translation by Christine Schlosser .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Samediggi. Retrieved January 19, 2019 (Finnish).
  2. ↑ Claudia Jeltsch: The first Sami rapper. Claudias Helsinki, January 18, 2019, accessed January 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Oktavuohta. Nettilehti saamelaisista ja saamelaiskulttuurista. 1.7.2015. Saamelaiskäräjät. January 19, 2019, accessed June 11, 2017 (Finnish).
  4. ↑ Johanna Domokos , Christine Schlosser , Michael Rießler (eds.): Words disappear / fly / to the blue light: Sami poetry from yoik to rap . Translated by Christine Schlosser (=  Samica . Volume 4 ). 1st edition. Scandinavian seminar of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , Freiburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-9816835-3-0 (484 pages).
personal data
SURNAME Valle, Áilu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish musician, first rapper in the Sami language
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century