Ánde Somby

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| name = Ánde Somby

| image = Ande Somby in white Beaska (cropped).png

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| caption =with a Beaska. in 1991

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1958|5|12|df=y}} {{cite web |url=http://www.jus.uit.no/ansatte/somby/cvandeENG.htm |title=Ande Somby - CV in English |website=www.jus.uit.no |access-date=1 September 2008}}

| birth_place = Buolbmat, Norway

| occupation = Sami writer, musician, artist, University Researcher.

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Ánde Somby, born in Buolbmat, Norway, is a traditional Sami joik artist and an associate professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Tromsø, specializing in Indigenous Rights Law.{{cite web |url=http://www.norway.org/culture/music/Columbia+Vajas.htm |title=Domeneshop |website=www.norway.org |access-date=February 15, 2009}}

Somby has been active yoiker since 1974. He has also been producing records with other yoikers. In 1985 he produced the LP record and MC cassette "Ean Máššan" with his father Aslak Somby (1913–2008) and mother Karen Kristine Porsanger Somby born 1920.Ean máššan : Buolbmát luođit : authentic sámi songs from Buolbmát district DAT 1985 in 1991 he produced the record Ravddas Ravdii with Inga Juuso.Ravddas Ravdii Dat 1991 In 2000 he produced the record "Deh" and in 2003 Deh2 with his uncle Ivvár Niillas.

File:Riddu Riđđu (8).jpg during the Riddu Riđđu Festival in Norway, 2007]]

Somby is only one of few Sami with Ph.D. in law (dr. juris). Somby's Ph.D. is titled "Juss som retorikk". In that thesis he reconnected the Nordic jurisprudence to the classical rhetorical tradition which dates back to Plato and Aristotle. In 2009, Somby was working on a project titled "Is the legal medium the legal message?", in which he attempted to apply Marshall McLuhan{{'}}s mantra on the medium being the message to jurisprudence.{{cite web |url=http://www.jus.uit.no/ansatte/somby/drtromsNOR.htm |title=Ande Somby - |website=www.jus.uit.no |access-date=February 15, 2009}}

Somby is also one of the cofounders of the Sámi publishing house and record label Dat. Together with the band Boknakaran from Tromsø and the a cappella group Rosynka from Petrozavodsk in Russia Somby participated in the project "moya på Tvoja" (1998–2002). From 2003 to 2007 Somby was a member of the group Vajas (in English it means echo) and was the vocals and yoiker for the band.