Buffy Sainte-Marie at the Riddu Riđđu festival 2009
For the first time in 15 years will the legendary Buffy Sainte-Marie be on a sami-festival stage.
- This is huge! Buffy Sainte-Marie is one of the most famous indigenous artists in the world and a pioneer within the genre. It is therefore with great pride we can confirm that she will be on stage in Gaivuotna/Kåfjord this summer, says festival director Ragnhild Dalheim Eriksen.
Buffy Sainte-Marie has an amazing artistic career behind her, starting for more than 40 years ago. Already in 1962 she toured alone in North-America to put a focus on indigenous people. Soon she became a leading figure in the peace movement, and her ”Universal Solider” became one of the hymn songs for the movement. Consequently, she was put on the government´s list of ”people who should be denied to speak freely”, and the major radio stations stopped playing her songs.
Buffy´s impressive career includes more than 18 records. She has among other things worked with film making, and has been a pioneer within digital art. She has also started an educational foundation for children (Foundation for Native American Education), and teaches on several colleges and universities. In 1982 she was awarded an Oscar for “Up Where We Belong”, from the movie An Officer and a Gentleman.
Not since Davvi Suvva in 1993 has she stood on a sami festival stage. Now she returns with completely new songs from the cd Running for the Drum, recorded in her studio on Hawaii. She characterizes her cd as a ”whip-lash collection of power and beauty: folk/roots, pow wow-rock, rockabilly and dance".
In addition to new cd, it will also be launched a documentary about her: Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life.
Buffy Sainte-Marie has an amazing artistic career behind her, starting for more than 40 years ago. Already in 1962 she toured alone in North-America to put a focus on indigenous people. Soon she became a leading figure in the peace movement, and her ”Universal Solider” became one of the hymn songs for the movement. Consequently, she was put on the government´s list of ”people who should be denied to speak freely”, and the major radio stations stopped playing her songs.
Buffy´s impressive career includes more than 18 records. She has among other things worked with film making, and has been a pioneer within digital art. She has also started an educational foundation for children (Foundation for Native American Education), and teaches on several colleges and universities. In 1982 she was awarded an Oscar for “Up Where We Belong”, from the movie An Officer and a Gentleman.
Not since Davvi Suvva in 1993 has she stood on a sami festival stage. Now she returns with completely new songs from the cd Running for the Drum, recorded in her studio on Hawaii. She characterizes her cd as a ”whip-lash collection of power and beauty: folk/roots, pow wow-rock, rockabilly and dance".
In addition to new cd, it will also be launched a documentary about her: Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life.
