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<h2 id="band-members">Band members</h2>
<p><a href="/facts/Kristin_Mellem/VylxS5uT">Kristin Mellem</a> is a classically trained composer and violinist who has done a lot of musical projects.  She has composed and performed music both in smaller settings and with full orchestras.
</p><p><a href="/facts/%25C3%2581nde_Somby/zfpc8CTz">Ánde Somby</a> is both a traditional and non-traditional Sami yoiker (joiker) and has been performing since the late seventies.  Somby also has a Ph.D. in Law and is a busy academic, employed at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Troms%25C3%25B8/FQRYDuEL">University of Tromsø</a> in Norway.
</p><p>Nils Johansen is a musician, composer, artist and multiinstrumentalist and is also a member of the Norwegian pop/indie duo <i><a href="/facts/Bel_Canto_(band)/VG57nCkl">Bel Canto</a></i>.  Johansen has been a part of the international music industry since the mid eighties and has composed music for film, television and for full orchestras.  He wrote the opening number to the debut of the Norwegian radio channel P3 and has done a lot of musical work outside his two bands.
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<h2 id="personal-life">Personal life</h2>
<p>Somby lived with Kristin Mellem from 2003 to 2007 and have one child together, born in 2005.  From a former marriage Somby has two children, born in 1980 and 1988. Somby is the father of Lawra Somby, who yoiks in the duo <a href="/facts/Adjagas/QcA7dGEz">Adjagas</a>.
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<h2 id="discography">Discography</h2>
<ul><li>2006 <i>Sacred stone</i>, Vaj AS/Musikkoperatørene, Norway</li></ul>
<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>

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<li><a href="http://www.myspace.com/vajasmyspace">Vajas' English profile page on MySpace.com with songs and a video</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.myspace.com/somban">Ánde Somby's English profile page on MySpace.com</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.myspace.com/belcantonorway">Nils Johansen's  English Bel Canto profile page on MySpace.com</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Worldmusic project for Bel Canto musician and more <a href="http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=21270_0_2_0_C" target="_blank">http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=21270_0_2_0_C</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>"Tromsø-trio er nettfenomen". 20 October 2009. <a href="http://nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/troms_og_finnmark/1.6827236" target="_blank">http://nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/troms_og_finnmark/1.6827236</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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