Nive's biggest fan

As we were getting into the van with Nive to go shoot, we were approached by a very drunken man, who wanted to tell us that he loved her, and we should drive carefully, because he loved her. Also that we should drive carefully.
I was waiting in the driver's seat for the time to come when she would give him a polite brushofff, so I could start pulling away from him and get on with our business, but she carried on a long conversation with him in Greenlandic.
It turns out he was telling her a sad story, he had been diagnosed with cancer and given six months to live; he had told the doctor that he would rather drink himself to death first, and that is what he was setting out to do.
She also told me later that she had decided long ago not to treat people with any less respect because they were drunk, that is how they had chosen to live their lives and it was not up to her to judge them.
It''s a very different attitude to drunks on street corners than I have developed, living as I do in a large North American city. A much nicer and more tolerant attitude, although some days, in some parts of town, if I spent time having a conversation with every drunk that wanted to talk I'd spend all day walking ten blocks. Maybe it's different in a place like Nuuk, with 3,000 inhabitants.
Before we finished Nive had received several big hugs and a number of big wet kisses on her hand and on her cheeks. She accepted them all graciously.
I met him again the next morning, before he had managed to get himself thoroughly drunk yet. He's a nice guy, it turns out, and we had a conversation that made sense this time. He likes her music because it's real Greenlandic music, even though it's in a new style. She and he are two of the last real Nuukians (if that's a word), lots of people are moving in and it's changing fast, but they are both people whose families and whose roots are there.
So she is managing to make music that appeals to judgmental urban westerners like me, and at the same time makes inebriated authentic Greenlanders feel proud of their heritage. Quite an achievement.