The cover of my future Finnish doom metal album.

The cover of my future Finnish doom metal album.

The traditional Sami singing of the joik was important in his music, as well as in his painting and in written works.

The traditional Sami singing of the joik was important in his music, as well as in his painting and in written works. He was first recognised as an artist for his joik during the 1960s, with his first recording Joikuja from 1968, which contained modernised joik. Valkeapeää wrote the music to the motion picture Ofelaš, internationally known as The Pathfinder in 1987, which was directed by Nils Gaup.

As a writer, he mainly wrote in Sami with his work translated into other languages and eventually published eight collections of poems. One of his best known is Beaivi áhčážan which has been translated to English, titled The Sun, My Father.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils-Aslak_Valkeap%C3%A4%C3%A4?wprov=sfla1