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Tanya Tagaq (born May 5, 1975) is a Canadian Inuit throat singer from from Cambridge Bay (Iqaluktuutiaq), Nunavut. Her style, rooted in thousands of years of high Arctic tradition, incorporates the element of breath with modern elements of various styles of music, notably punk, metal, hardcore and electronic.

Tagaq first became known in Canada and internationally for her collaborations with innovative singer-songwriter Bjork and the Kronos Quartet. Her debut CD Sinaa was released in 2005, followed by her second release Auk/Blood (ᐊᐅᒃ) (2008). Between studio recordings, Tagaq advanced her vocal performance through a residency at the Banff Centre, and teamed up with filmmakers Félix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphael to create an award-winning short film for her song “Tungijuq”. Her third album Anuraaqtuq, released in 2011, features standing collaborators, violinist Jesse Zubot and drummer Jean Martin.

Tagaq’s career gained traction in 2013 through hypnotic primal live performances and subsequent notability of her musical experimentation. She has been recognized as a soloist and collaborative artist with several Juno Award nominations ; and she won the 2014 Polaris Music Prize, the 2014 Canadian Folk Music Pushing the Boundaries Award ; the 2015 Juno Award for Aboriginal Recording of the Year and the 2015 Western Canadian Music Award for Aboriginal Recording of the Year, Spiritual Recording of the Year and World Recording of the Year, for her fourth album Animism.

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After attending school in Cambridge Bay, at age 15, Tagaq went to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories to attend high school where she first began to practice throat singing. She later studied visual arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and while there developed her own solo form of Inuit throat singing, which is traditionally done by two women.

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Since the initial collaboration with the Kronos Quartet in 2005, Tagaq and the Quartet have performed together at venues across North America, from the January 2006 debut of the project Nunavut at the Chan Centre in Vancouver, BC through to the New York’s Spring for Music Festival at Carnegie Hall presentation of composer Derek Charke’s, “13 Inuit Throat Song Games”(2014). In 2015, Tagaq was commissioned to write a piece for the Kronos' Fifty for the Future project.

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2014 Canadian Folk Music Pushing the Boundaries Award

2015 Western Canadian Music Award for Aboriginal Recording of the Year, Spiritual Recording of the Year and World Recording of the Year.

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Six Shooter Records

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