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Berit Margrethe Oskal
7+ albums
norwegianjoikSaamifolk
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Berit Margrethe Oskal is a Sami artist and joik performer from Kautokeino, Norway. She has been performing with her own music since 2001, and in 2007 Berits' debut album Mátki (Journey) was released. The music style is somewhere between the ancient traditions of joik and the modern pop world, and Berit combines the best of both styles. Berits' second album Fargga (Soon) will be released in October/November 2010. Berit Margrethe grew up with Sami music and traditional joik, highly influenced by both Sami and Norwegian music bands from the 1970s, such as Ivnniiguin and Unit 5, and old tape recordings from the 1950s, which were recorded and collected by the family elders. Berit listened to these tapes whenever she had a chance, and she also started to sing and joik herself at an early age. The oldest excisting recordings of Berit joiking and singing are actually from March 1979, two months before she turned 2! However, her first time joiking on stage was not until 1997, when she performed together with her cousin Inger Anna, who was having a concert with her band Snödriva in Tromsø. The year after, in 1998, Berit participated in Sami Grand Prix together with Risten Turi with the song Áhčážan, written by Marja Oleanna Sara Hætta and Johan Isak Siri. They did not win, they did not even get awarded, but in Berits mind a dream was born. In 2001 the dream started to come true when Berit established the duo 2xOskal together with her second cousin and childhood neighbour Inger Joha
