We take the next ferry south to arrive in the capital of Greenland, Nuuk, which contains a third of the population of the country. Inuk indie-folk singer/songwriter Nive Nielsen was born here in 1979. She tours internationally with her band the Deer Children singing mostly in English, with a few songs thrown in in Greenlandic. Here is one of her songs in Greenlandic from her 2015 album Feet First called Tulugaq with some nice shots of Greenlandic scenery:
Hip-hop band Nuuk Posse formed in 1985 and rap in Greenlandic, English and Danish. They don't appear to have a website any more and might no longer be active, but here is a track to their 1995 album NP called Inupiliaqqat:
The indie-rock band Nanook was formed by brothers Christian and Frederick Elsner in Nuuk in 2008. The brothers are half Inuit, half Danish and sing in Greenlandic. They also run a record company and a musical instrument shop in Nuuk. They are the most popular current pop act in Greenland, their name referring to a mythological Greenlandic bear. This is a track from their 2018 album Ataasiusutut Misigissuseq called Aarnuaq (Talisman) filmed in Uummannaq in the north:
Finally we hop on a ferry again to the southern town of Qarqortoq, where singer/songwriter Simon Lynge grew up, although he was born in Holstebro in Denmark in 1980. He quotes his early influences as Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, Simon and Garfunkel and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and he sings mostly in English. He comes from a long line of musicians in his family, and he has been the first to achieve international success. Here is the title from his 2018 album Deep snow, which is available as a free download on his website. The video is filmed in Nuuk:
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