Maxida Märak

Ida Amanda "Maxida" Märak (born 17 September 1988) is a Swedish-Sámi joik-singer, hiphop musician, actress and activist. Märak is a human rights activist with a special interest in the rights of the Sami people. She has taken part in protests against the mine building in Kallak.[1][2] In 2014, she recorded the album Mountain Songs and other Stories along with the bluegrass band Downhill Bluegrass band.[3]

Maxida Märak
Márak at Riddu Riđđu 2019
Background information
Born (1988-09-17) 17 September 1988
Skarpnäck, Stockholm, Sweden
OriginJokkmokk, Norrbotten County, Sweden
Genres
Occupation(s)Singer
Associated acts

Also in 2014, she took part in the SVT show Sápmi Sessions along with Aki and King Fari Band.[4] In Sveriges Radios radio theater ”Dagbok från Gallok” she can be heard as an actress and also the producer of the music.[5] Along with her sister Mimie Märak she toured with the concert Under Asfalten ett Fjäll.[6] In 2015, she sang the World Cup song Love last forever along with music group Mando Diao for the 2015 skiing world cup.[7]

She played in the film Glada hälsningar från Missångerträsk by Martina Haag, and she has also toured with Giron sámi teáhter.[8]

Märak presented an episode of Sveriges Radios show Sommar i P1 on 30 July 2015.[9]

In 2016, she played the role of Evelina Geatki, a poetess and Sami activist in the Swedish-French series Midnattssol (aka Midnight Sun and Jour Polaire).

She featured in Eanan, a song by Canadian EDM/Hip-hop group A Tribe Called Red from their Album We Are the Halluci Nation.

References
  1. Samiska konstnärer tar strid mot gruvan Archived 2015-07-16 at the Wayback Machine Dagens Nyheter Retrieved 21 July 2015
  2. "Maxidas jojk och hiphop". svt.se. Archived from the original on 26 February 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  3. "Samiska konstnärer tar strid mot ny gruva". Dagens Nyheter. Archived from the original on 16 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  4. Sveriges Radio. "Hennes samhällsengagemang gav henne pris". Archived from the original on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  5. Sveriges Radio. "Dagbok från Gallok". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  6. "Under asfalten ett fjäll". Archived from the original on 26 June 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  7. Tobias Holmgren (20 January 2015). "Rapparen Maxida Märak vill ha samisk revolution". Göteborgs-Posten. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  8. "Maxida Märak » Jokkmokk's Winter Market". Archived from the original on 26 February 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  9. Sveriges Radio. "Maxida Märak sommarpratar i P1". Archived from the original on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
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