Tanya Tagaq

Biography

Inuit throat singer from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, who transformed the traditional two-woman art of katajjaq into a solo performance practice. Her albums 'Sinaa' (2005), the Polaris Prize-winning 'Animism' (2014) and 'Tongues' (2022) fuse throat singing with improvisation and electronics, and she is also the author of the novel 'Split Tooth'. A member of the Order of Canada, she is also an acclaimed novelist and a vocal advocate for Indigenous rights and the Arctic environment.