Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen (born 25 April 1998) is a

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musician, activist and actor from

Tana Municipality or is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Tana bru. Among the other villages in the municipality are Austertana, Bonakas, Polmak, Rustefjelbma, and Skiippagurra. The m ...

Finnmark Finnmark (; ; ; ; ) is a counties of Norway, county in northern Norway. By land, it borders Troms county to the west, Finland's Lapland (Finland), Lapland region to the south, and Russia's Murmansk Oblast to the east, and by water, the Norweg ...

county, Norway. In 2016 she won the

Sámi Grand Prix The Sámi Grand Prix, often abbreviated as SGP, is a Sámi yoik and song music competition, competition organized annually by the Sámi Music Festival organization (, ), featuring participants from all corners of Sápmi. While the majority o ...

with her original song ''Luoddaearru'', and in 2017 she won Liet International with the same song. In 2017 Isaksen started the band ISÁK. In October 2018 she won the NRK-show ''Stjernekamp''. She was the county leader in the environmental protection organization

Natur og Ungdom Natur og Ungdom (NU) which translates to Nature and Youth, also known in English as Young Friends of the Earth Norway, is a Norwegian youth environmental protection organisation. It is the only environmentalist youth organisation in Norway. 7, ...

from January 2015 until January 2016. She continued her work in the organization until she was hired as a campaign secretary in Natur og Ungdom in the autumn of 2017. Furthermore, she was elected to the central board of the organization in January 2018, where she sat for six months. Until she chose to focus on music in the summer of 2018. At the end of 2022, she started acting in her first film, ''Ellos eatnu'' (''English'', ''Let the river flow''), which was released on 2 February 2023. She is the lead vocalist for the Sami electronic-

joik A joik or yoik (anglicised, where the latter spelling in English conforms with the pronunciation; also named , , , or in the Sámi languages) is a traditional form of song in Sámi music performed by the Sámi people of Sápmi in Northern E ...

band Isák which consists of herself, producer Daniel Eriksen and drummer Aleksander Kostopoulos. The band announced their break up in May 2023, with their last concert being played at

Rockefeller Music Hall Rockefeller is a concert venue with audience entrance at Mariboes gate 5B, downtown Oslo, Norway. The building, known as "Torggata Bad" ("Market Street Bath"), used to house a public bathing facility. To this day the surrounding floors of the bui ...

in September.

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People from Tana, Norway 1998 births Living people Norwegian environmentalists 21st-century Norwegian singers Norwegian Sámi musicians 21st-century Norwegian women singers {{Norway-musician-stub