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Niko Valkeapää
Sign in to saveAlso known as Gová Nils Heaikka Niko, Gová-Nils Heaikka Niko, Mihku Ánne Niko, Niko-Mihkal Valkeapää
Sámi musician and politician
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Vinony's link graph records 16 inbound references to Niko Valkeapää, and connects out to folk music, joik and Finland.
It is catalogued under topics including 1968 births, 20th-century Finnish folk musicians and 20th-century Finnish male singers.
Vinony links it to 7 Wikipedia language editions.
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Finland
- Active from
- 1968-12-30
Discography
- Niko Valkeapää2003
- Sierra2004
- Birrat Birra2008
- ÄÄ2012
- Gusto2012
- Ráfi2015
- Gáldu2018
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,968
- Total plays
- 41,370
Tags
Niko Valkeapää (raised in Enontekiö, Finland) is a Finnish-Norwegian and Sámi singer-songwriter. Since 1990 he's been living in Kautokeino where he started out as a teacher. He is the godson of artist Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, and quoted some of Nils-Aslak's texts on his two albums, which have become a part of the "thrid wave" in the modern Sámi culture, on which he has worked with Georg Buljo, and several other artists. He won the Sámi Grand Prix (1994 <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Niko+Valkea
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Norway
- Place of birth
- Enontekiö
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Northern Sami
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Valkeapää, Niko (Foto Kenneth Hætta) (37471002840).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1968-12-30
- Commons category
- Niko Valkeapää
- name in native language
- Mihku Ánne Niko
- P10632
- Niko Valkeapää
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