Tanya Tagaq
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Biography
Tanya Tagaq Gillis was born on 5â¯Mayâ¯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 Records and released Animism in 2014, winning the Polaris Music Prize and a Juno Award for Aboriginal Recording of the Year; the album was followed by Retribution in 2016. In 2018 she published the book Split Tooth, and in 2022 the album Tongues was released, produced by Saul Williams and later remixed by Gonjasufi. Tanya Tagaq has collaborated with Björk, the Kronos Quartet, and Saul Williams, and her work has been featured in film and television, including True Detective and North of North. In 2026, she released the experimental album Saputjiji.
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- Track Popularity
- Construction
- The Tower (From "The Princess"/Score) by Natalie Holt
- The Iceberg Cometh (Sirmilik, NU) by Tanya Tagaq
- Tategak
- John's Vision: Lament Over Babylon and Transition to the New Kingdom featuring Tanya Tagaq
- Gentle
- Growth
- Fire - Ikuma
- Fox - Tiriganiak
- Sinialuk
- Blood - Auk
- Burst
- Hunger
- Moira Fight (From "The Princess"/Score) by Natalie Holt
- Want
- Growl
- Force
- Underestimated (From "The Princess"/Score) by Natalie Holt
- Rescue (From "The Princess"/Score) by Natalie Holt
- Stair Siege (From "The Princess"/Score) by Natalie Holt
- Scream by Tanya Tagaq
- Snarl
- Sila by Tanya Tagaq
- Alie Nation featuring John Trudell
