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Published in 2008

Four young people celebrate traditional Swedish folklore, arranged for polyphonic female singing.

The female vocal quartet Kraja consists of four young women (all born between 1983 and 1986) from the area around Umeå in northern Sweden: Frida Johansson, Linnea Nilsson, and sisters Eva and Lisa Lestander. They made their debut on the stage of the Umeå Folk Festival in the spring of 2001.

Typical of kraja music are the incomparable four-part harmonic vocal arrangements, which they all create themselves. Together, they sound like a perfectly tuned and carefully balanced instrument. The entire atmosphere, the loving aura, the surrounding air literally vibrate with the individual songs.

Their varied repertoire includes traditional Swedish folk songs, love songs, humorous and vulgar songs, poetic hymns, dance tunes, and choral pieces, enriched with some self-written pieces.

Their debut CD, Vackert Väder, from 2005, brought the quartet unexpectedly huge success. The media and the public immediately fell in love with the four young women and featured them on numerous appearances outside Sweden. Kraja played throughout Scandinavia, in Germany, Ukraine, and Estonia. In the summer of 2008, they embarked on an extensive tour from Sweden through Central Europe to Russia and Iceland.

Since 2006, Kraja has been working on Vackert Väder's next album. This time, the quartet focused on some of Sweden's most popular folk songs. The new CD, "Under the Sky," features, among other things, well-known traditional Swedish songs such as "Uti vår hage," "En gång i min ungdom," "En sjöman älskar havets våg," "Jag vet en dejlig rosa," and, of course, the title track "Allt Under the Sky."

The word kraja comes from the Sami language and means something like the place where you long.

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