Vajas

Vajas (meaning echo in North Sámi) was a Sámi-Norwegian band with Kristin Mellem on violin and vocals, Nils Johansen on guitars, computers and synthesizers and the famous Sami ethnic yoiker Ánde Somby on vocals and yoik (or joik, a type of traditional chanting or singing).

[1] In 2009, a minor YouTube fad involved remaking or lipsynching to the song "Sparrow of the Wind".

Ánde Somby is both a traditional and non-traditional Sami yoiker (joiker) and has been performing since the late seventies.

Nils Johansen is a musician, composer, artist and multiinstrumentalist and is also a member of the Norwegian pop/indie duo Bel Canto.

He wrote the opening number to the debut of the Norwegian radio channel P3 and has done a lot of musical work outside his two bands.