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Jon Henrik Fjällgren

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Jon Henrik Mario Fjällgren (born 26 April 1987) is a Swedish-Sámi singer and jojkare, an interpreter of Sámi joik. He was the winner of Talang Sverige 2014, the Swedish version of Got Talent. Upon winning the competition he released the music album Goeksegh. He has participated in Melodifestivalen three times, in 2015 he placed second, in 2017 he placed third, and in 2019 he placed fourth.

Fjällgren was born in Cali, Colombia. At a very young age, he lived in a Native Colombian village and later moved to an orphanage. Fjällgren later was adopted by a Swedish Sami family, and became part of a siida community in Mittådalen, a reindeer foraging area where he worked as a reindeer herder. Fjällgren has revealed in several interviews that he was bullied as a child because he had darker skin and was a Sami. The bullying stopped as he reached teenaged years.

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