"Mari Boine" (born 8 November 1956) is a Norwegian Sami musician known for having added jazz and rock to the yoiks of her native people. Gula Gula (first released by Idut, 1989, later re-released by Real World) was her breakthrough release, and she continued to record popular albums throughout the 1990s. In 2003, Boine was awarded the Nordic Council Music Prize. In 2008, she was appointed Professor of musicology at Nesna University College. She was appointed knight, first class in the Royal Norwegian Order of St.

Olav for her artistic diversity on 18 September 2009. On 7 October 2012, Boine was appointed as a "statsstipendiat", an artist with national funding, the highest honour that can be bestowed upon any artist in Norway.