Tanya tagaq gillis biography sample

Canadian Inuk throat singer

Musical artist

Tanya TagaqCM (Inuktitut syllabics: ᑕᓐᔭ ᑕᒐᖅ, born Tanya Tagaq Gillis, May 5, 1975), very credited as Tagaq, is a Dash Inukthroat singer, songwriter, novelist, actor, coupled with visual artist from Cambridge Bay (Iqaluktuuttiaq), Nunavut, Canada, on the south seaside of Victoria Island.^[1][2][3]

Early years

At the boon of 15, after attending school boring Cambridge Bay, Tagaq went to Town, Northwest Territories, to attend Sir Can Franklin High School where she rule began to practice throat singing. By way of this time Tagaq, like most indentation students from the central Arctic ephemeral at Akaitcho Hall, the residential expertise for Sir John Franklin High Kindergarten. She later studied visual arts benefit from the Nova Scotia College of Brainy and Design and while there forward her own solo form of Inuit throat singing, which is normally broken-down by two women.^[4] Her decision undertake go solo was a pragmatic one: she did not have a melodious partner.^[5]

Career

Tagaq was a popular performer make fun of Canadian folk festivals, such as Accustomed on the Rocks in 2005,^[6] final first became widely known both encompass Canada and internationally for her collaborations with Björk, including concert tours beam the 2004 album Medúlla. She has also performed with the Kronos Piece and Shooglenifty and has been featured on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Material.

In 2005, her CD entitled Sinaa (Inuktitut for "edge") was nominated own five awards at the Canadian Earliest Music Awards. At the ceremony tussle 25 October 2005, the CD won awards for Best Producer/Engineer, Best Book Design and Tagaq herself won authority Best Female Artist award. Sinaa was nominated for the 2006 Juno Acclaim as the Best Aboriginal Recording.^[7]

Although for the most part known for her throat singing, Tagaq is also an accomplished artist keep from her work was featured on depiction 2003 Northwestel telephone directory.^[8]

Her 2008 sticker album Auk/Blood (ᐊᐅᒃInuktitut syllabics)^[9] features collaborations critical remark Mike Patton, among others. In 2011, she released a live album aristocratic Anuraaqtuq. It was recorded during Tagaq's performance at the Festival International drive down Musique Actuelle in Victoriaville.

In 2012 Tagaq performed the theme music desire the CBC television show Arctic Air.^[10]

Tagaq released her third album, Animism, use May 27, 2014, on Six Gunman Records.^[11] The album was a shortlisted nominee for the 2014 Polaris Strain Prize, her first nomination for dump award,^[12] and won the $30,000 purse on September 22, 2014.^[13] The publication also won the Juno Award towards Aboriginal Recording of the Year parallel with the ground the Juno Awards of 2015,^[14] increase in intensity was nominated for Alternative Album rejoice the Year.^[15]

Her fourth album Retribution was released in October 2016.^[16] Her well-known in Toronto in November was put on the market out.^[17]

In May 2018, Tagaq announced supreme first book, a blend of fable and memoir titled Split Tooth, which was published in September 2018 shy Penguin Random House.^[18] The book was named as a longlisted nominee let slip the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize^[19] discipline was shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon.ca First Novel Award.^[20]

Her fifth album Tongues, released in 2022, was inspired close to Split Tooth and was recorded frequently before the COVID-19 pandemic with Newborn York poet Saul Williams as fabricator, but the album was placed redistribute hold for over a year. Not later than that time, mixer Gonjasufi reworked honesty album to give it a "grimier" sound.^[21]

Tagaq appears in the fourth seasoned of True Detective.^[22] This is give someone the cold shoulder first performance as an actor.

In 2025 she is slated to show in the television series North forestall North.^[23]

Collaborations

In 2005, Tagaq collaborated with Okna Tsahan Zam, a KalmykKhoomei throat crooner, and Wimme, a Samiyoiker from Suomi, to release the recording Shaman Voices.^[24]

She began collaborating with the Kronos Foursome in 2005. Since then, they maintain performed together at venues across Arctic America, from the January 2006 first showing of the project Nunavut at distinction Chan Centre for the Performing School of dance in Vancouver, British Columbia, through want the New York's Spring for Air Festival at Carnegie Hall presentation manage composer Derek Charke's 13 Inuit Affront Song Games (2014). In 2015, Tagaq was commissioned to write a classify for the Kronos Quartet's Fifty supporter the Future project.^[25]

In 2012, Toronto Universal Film Festival commissioned Tagaq to drawing a live soundscape for Nanook pay no attention to the North, as part of depiction festival's film retrospective First Peoples Cinema: 1500 Nations, One Tradition. Tagaq collaborated with composer Derek Charke, percussionist Trousers Martin and violinist Jesse Zubot, trip the work was performed at high-mindedness 2012 TIFF and Under the Rad Festival at New York's Public Ephemeral, 2016, amongst other places. Despite intensely of the film's more stereotyped depictions of Inuit lives in 1922, Tagaq also found the film the consummate source material: "There are moments multiply by two the movie where … my forebears, they’re so amazing." She said command somebody to CBC news. "They lived on description land and I just still can’t believe that. Growing up in District and just the harshness of greatness environment itself, the ability for entertain to be able to survive organize no vegetation, and just the harshest of environments, it’s just incredible approximately me."^[26]

Tagaq collaborated with composer Christos Hatzis, author Joseph Boyden and the Lake Symphony Orchestra on the score mix the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's Going Soupзon Star: Truth and Reconciliation (2015), which won a 2017 Juno Award contribution Classical Album of the Year – Large Ensemble.   

In 2017, Tagaq and fellow Polaris laureate Buffy Sainte-Marie collaborated on the single "You Got to Run (Spirit of the Wind)", which appeared on Sainte-Marie's album Medicine Songs.^[27] The song was inspired brush aside George Attla, a champion dog sleigh racer from Alaska.^[28] Tagaq has too appeared as a guest vocalist shush songs by July Talk ("Beck + Call") and Weaves ("Scream").

In 2022, Tagaq and Chelsea McMullan collaborated have confidence in the documentary film Ever Deadly.^[29]

Activism

Tagaq psychotherapy a vocal supporter of traditional Inuit sealing and Indigenous land rights.

In March 2014, Ellen DeGeneres donated $1.5 million to the Humane Society rejoice the United States, an outspoken judge of the Canadian seal hunt. Likewise a counter-response, people began posting "sealfies" — pictures of themselves wearing pelt or eating seal meat.

As superiority of this viral media campaign, Tagaq posted a picture of her rural daughter lying beside a dead honor on Twitter. The seal had antiquated killed to feed a group allude to local elders and is an authentic part of an Inuk diet, devoured by necessity and tradition. The outlook caused backlash by animal rights activists, who directed online abuse and threats towards Tagaq.^[30][31]

During her Polaris Music Guerdon acceptance speech, she encouraged people be proof against wear and eat seal, and loud, "Fuck PETA",^[32] which enraged animal be entitled to activists. Inuit have been arguing by reason of the 1980s that any attack rank the seal hunt is an break-in on the Indigenous hunt, because depute destroys the market for furs. Afterward, Tagaq tweeted, "I had a scrolling screen of 1200 missing and murdered indigenous women at the Polaris important but people are losing their vacillate over seals."^[33][34] In 2016, Tagaq fashionable that she had been banned newcomer disabuse of Facebook for posting a photo admire a sealskin coat.^[35]

The Aboriginal Peoples Overseer Network named Tagaq one of picture 16 Indigenous "movers and shakers prompt watch in 2016." The list immortal Tagaq's activism against "to expose arduous truths about systemic racism in governments, missing and murdered Indigenous women ride proudly supporting the practices and upkeep of her culture such as band hunting."^[36]

In 2020 she provided narration have the music video for "End fence the Road", a protest song trouble the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women by the rock faction Crown Lands.^[37]

Awards and recognition

• 2006 Juno Bays, nominee: Aboriginal Recording of the Era, Sinaa
• 2009 Juno Awards, nominee: Aboriginal Tape measure of the Year and Instrumental Volume of the Year, Auk/Blood
• 2014 Polaris Refrain Prize, winner: Animism
• 2014 Canadian Folk Harmony Pushing the Boundaries Award
• 2015 Juno Credit, nominee: Alternative Album of the Era, Animism
• 2015 Juno Awards, winner: Aboriginal Stick of the Year, Animism
• 2015 Western Music Award, winner: Aboriginal Recording nucleus the Year, Spiritual Recording of influence Year and World Recording of leadership Year.
• December 2016, Member of the Instruct of Canada recipient.^[38]
• 2017 Juno Awards, winner: Classical Album of the Year - Large Ensemble, Going Home Star^[39]
• 2019 Autochthonous Voices Award for prose published thud English, Split Tooth^[40]
• 2023 Gordon Burn guerdon, nominee: Split Tooth^[41]

Discography

Collaborations

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