Jannok's music, which she herself has a hard time trying to define, is a mix of jazz, pop, and joik. Joik, a singing style connected to the Sami, was for a long time considered heathen, and many Sami stopped joiking for fear of being cut off from society or being viewed as uncultivated. "I didn't learn to joik at home, for example. That's something that disappeared with my grandmother. I didn't really understand the difference between joiking and singing until I was in my early teens," Jannok says. "Now I realize that with joiking you need a different technique. It's a wonderful way to express feelings for somebody, because it's very intimate. Traditionally, a joik isn't something you do on stage, but I don't really do a classic kind of joik. I like to experiment a bit with it.
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