Nanook (band)

Nanook is a Greenlandic pop-rock band started by brothers Christian and Frederick Elsner in 2008. The band's name comes from a mythological Greenlandic bear. Their music speaks to many people in Greenland.

The lyrics of Nanook's songs are in Greenlandic. They chose to keep their language even when a big company, Sony, asked them to use English instead. Their music is soft and melodic, often called indie rock.

Christian and Frederick Elsner are half-Inuit and half-Danish. They grew up in Southern Greenland but moved to Nuuk, the capital city, in 2001. Today, they run a family-owned business called Atlantic Music, which sells music and instruments.

Nanook is now Greenland's most popular band.

History

Nanook is a band from Greenland. They started in 2008 and released their first album, Seqinitta Qinngorpaatit ("Our sun is shining on you"), in 2009. The band won the "Best Album" prize at the Greenland Music Awards in 2010 and 2014.

Nanook performed at many famous music events. In 2010, they played at the Sámi music festival Riddu Riđđu in Sápmi, which is in northern Fennoscandia. They returned to this festival in 2015 and also performed at the Roskilde Festival in 2019.