Aviaja Lumholt

Greenlandic/Danish vocalist, born 1968. As she lived most of her childhood in Greenland, Aviaja Lumholt's musical career has been closely associated with the ethnic music of Greenland. She studied the traditional mask dance and drum singing at the Tuukkaq Drama School and toured with a Greenlandic rock group and a polka band. In 1990 she performed as a soloist in the Danish Eurovision Song Contest and a year later she began further studies at the Rhythmic Music Conservartory, Copenhagen.