Nuuk Posse is a
hip hop
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group from
Greenland
Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenlan ...
. The group, whose members are
Inuit
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, formed in 1985 under a different name, finally taking the name Nuuk Posse in 1991. Nuuk Posse is multilingual, rapping in
Kalaallisut, English, and Danish.
The group's members include Andreas Hojgaard (
human beatbox), Lars Sørensen (rap), Peter Motzfeldt (rap, music), Henrik Pedersen (rap), Thomas Hansen (rap), and John Olsen (rap, lyrics). They released their first single, "Sussa Appinnagu" in 1992. Their first album, ''NP'', was released in 1995. In 1996 they released their album ''Kaataq'' through the Belgian label
Sub Rosa
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History
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.
Nuuk Posse has toured in various countries, including Sweden, Germany, Spain, Belgium, and Canada, but never in Denmark.
The group were awarded the cultural prize of Greenland in 1995, and they were nominated as "Messengers of Truth" by the United Nations in 2004.
References
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20090601190951/http://www.milkycat.com/reviews/nuukrvw.html
Greenlandic musical groups
Hip-hop groups
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