Maxida Märak

Ida Amanda "Maxida" Märak (born 17 September 1988) is a Swedish-Sámi joik-singer, hiphop musician, actress and activist. Märak is a human rights activist with a special interest in the rights of the Sami people. She has taken part in protests against the mine building in Kallak. In 2014, she recorded the albumMountain Songs and other Stories along with the bluegrass band Downhill Bluegrass band.

Also in 2014 she took part in the SVT show Sápmi Sessions along with Aki and King Fari Band. In Sveriges Radios radio theater ”Dagbok från Gallok”she can be heard as an actress and also the producer of the music. Along with her sister Mimie Märak she toured with the concert Under Asfalten ett Fjäll. In 2015, she sang the World Cup song Love last forever along with music group Mando Diao for the 2015 skiing world cup.

She played in the film Glada hälsningar från Missångerträsk by Martina Haag, and she has also toured with Giron sámi teáhter.

Märak presented an episode of Sveriges Radios show Sommar i P1 on 30 July 2015.

In 2016, she played the role of Evelina Geatki, a poetess and Sami activist in the Swedish-French series Midnattssol (aka Midnight Sun and Jour Polaire).

She featured in Eanan, a song by Canadian EDM/Hip-hop group A Tribe Called Red from their Album We Are the Halluci Nation.