CLEO (SE)
Cleo is an echo of power, language, and transformation. With her 2022 album Missaoui – winner of multiple Grammis awards, she proved why she is one of Swedish hip-hop’s most uncompromising voices, where the personal becomes political and every lyric carries a legacy.
For more than two decades, Nathalie “Cleo” Missaoui has been a defining force in Swedish hip-hop. A stage poet and social voice, she has created a distinctive expression that moves seamlessly between poetry, politics, and pop culture. Missaoui, her first full-length album in Swedish and her breakthrough to a wider audience, cemented her position as one of the scene’s most influential artists.
The album is steeped in identity, heritage, struggle, and healing, with each track reflecting her Norrland and Tunisian roots. Both audiences and critics celebrated the release, which received some of Sweden’s most prestigious awards including Grammis, the Gaffa Prize, and the Music Publishers’ Prize. More than just an album, Missaoui was an artistic manifesto .
On stage, Cleo’s performances are described as intense, spiritually charged, and transformative.
Beyond her music, Cleo has been a driving force for cultural change. She co-founded the collective Random Bastards, building a platform for independent artists outside the metropolitan norm, the network Femtastic, which created space for female artists nationwide, and the campaign FATTA, which brought consent and sexual politics into the public debate.
Cleo makes music to survive but also to transform. Herself, her world, and sometimes, those of us who listen.
SULA KOLLEKTIIVI
Born in the Northern Night, Sula Kollektiivi is a multi-sonic DJ collective from Rovaniemi, made up of four unique-sounding selectors whose sets know no musical boundaries. The soundscape of the collective brings drum’n’bass, garage, house, techno, dubstep, breakbeat and bass together, weaving an unpredictable and always elevating energy. The collective features the cosmic and genre-fluid DJ Hulluella, DNB pioneer Suspent, and the master duo of bold basslines, Hellahighheat, Slomo, and Hasher. When the collective is behind the decks, one thing’s for sure: the night never gets dull.
ROLLOMATIK
The DJ duo from Rovaniemi is known over the years for great parties, hard-hitting remixes, and seamless collaboration on stage. Rollomatik has a unique way of blending different music styles together; their sets feature soulful rare grooves, hip hop, funk, disco, reggae, and all kinds of bangers from all over the globe, seamlessly mixed into one.