Angelit

thumb|Angelit at Faces X, July 2007 Angelit, formerly known as Angelin tytöt (Aŋŋel nieiddat), is a Finnish Sámi folk music group. Most of their albums were made by the sisters Ursula and Tuuni Länsman. According to National Biography of Finland, the group contributed to awareness of Sámi culture as a living tradition.

== History == The history of the group can be traced back to 1982 when Eino Kukkonen, Ursula and Tuuni Länsman's and their cousin Ulla Pirttijärvi's school teacher, took them along with some classmates to sing at a Sámi youth festival held at Utsjoki. In 1987, the group, consisting of five girls and one boy at the time, recorded a Sámi-language Christmas-themed tape Juovllaide together with Norwegian Sámi singer Mari Boine. The group was named Angelin nuoret after Angeli, the village they grew up in, located in Inari in Northern Finland.