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Tanya Tagaq

Tanya Tagaq Gillis was born on 5 May 1975 in Nuvanut, Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada, and is an Inuk throat singer, songwriter, novelist and visual artist. After attending Sir John Franklin High School in Yellowknife, she began practicing throat singing and later studied visual arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, where she developed a solo form of Inuit throat singing. Her career breakthrough came with the 2005 album Sinaa, which earned five nominations at the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards and a Juno nomination in 2006. Tanya Tagaq signed with Six Shooter Record...