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Sinikka Langeland

Sinikka Langeland was first played on NTS on 12 July 2019. Songs played include Køyri.

Sinikka Langeland is a folksinger, kantele player and composer who lives in Finnskogen, Norway. Due to her remarkable vocal and concert-kantele technique, she has been described as sounding like a whole orchestra all by herself. She is now recording her own compositions for the first time with the legendary record company ECM.

She was born in Kirkenær in southeastern Norway in 1961, and studied piano, guitar and contemporary folksong. In 1981 she discovered the instrument kantele, which would become her primary musical interest along with singing. In the 1980s she…

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Køyri
Sinikka Langeland
ECM Records2016
Køyri
Sinikka LangelandECM Records2016
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