The Sámi people are a group of people indigenous to Sápmi, an area covering the northern parts of todays Norway, Sweden, Finland and nort-western Russia. Maxida Märak is a rapper and singer born and raised in Stockholm, but now residing in Jokkmokk in the Swedish part of Sápmi.

She is a human rights activist as well as a musician, and has touched on important subjects such as climate change and the treatment of the Sámi people in both her activism and her music. The song Nu brinner ängarna (The meadows are burning) touches on climate change and the uncertainty around being able to promise her daughter a future.

In december 2022 she performed the song together with her daughter NikeSunna at Musikhjälpen, a yearly Swedish charity event hosted by the Swedish public service radio and television: