NORWAY – The video clip of the song Monument has just been released, with which Keiino will participate directly in the final of MGP 2021, the national song selection process of Norway for this year’s Eurovision.
The final will take place on February 20. The video clip includes scenes from beautiful natural landscapes of Norway. The members of the band are scattered in different places. Following a photo, they meet at the top of a mountain.
ABOUT KEiiNO
The group was established in the late summer of 2018 when Tom Hugo and his husband, Alex Olsson, began writing “Spirit in the Sky”, a song inspired by historical struggles for equality.
They later joined Sámi rapper and joiker Fred-René Buljo and singer Alexandra Rotan. The group name KEiiNO was inspired by the name of Buljo’s home town Kautokeino (Northern Sami: Guovdageaidnu).
The last part -geaidnu translates to the “way” or “road”, which Buljo states; “Represents the road that brought us together”, in an interview with TV 2.
In an interview with the kven-minority centred media Ruijan Kaiku, Fred Buljo revealed his kven/Finnish ancestry, and that they had worked with a Finnish producer, and therefore landed on the name keino, the Kven variant of North Sami geaidnu “way”(Kautokeino is Koutokeino in the kven language).
Alexandra Rotan explained that they each had their own career before KEiiNO, but it was KEiiNO that showed them the way to success.
LYRICS
How do you trace our life in time
When the snow comes in October
What do we leave behind?
All of this time, all of this time
Like a shadow whisper in the night (He-lo)
Like a monument to all the time we spent
A minor symphony
(Ho-na-he-lo-lo-hei-la)
Like a monument to all the time we spent
A minor symphony
If we are more than dust and sand
I will flow back down the river
Where you first held my hand
Vaikko massan mii leat min giissa
Go cohkon dat leat min jogat
De dollagáttis mun cippostan
Like a shadow whisper in the night…
