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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1975
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Eisfuchs
- Croc fendu
- It Bears Repeating
- Split tooth
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Film & TV
Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada
“Tagaq doesn’t so much sing as plug herself into the Earth.” – Pitchfork From Nunavut, Tanya Tagaq is an improvisational singer, avant-garde composer and author. A member of the Order of Canada, a Polaris Music Prize and JUNO Award winner and recipient of multiple honorary doctorates, Tagaq is an original disruptor, a world-changing figure at the forefront of seismic social, political and…
Known for
- North of North — Nuliajuq2025
- Ever Deadly — Self2022
- True Detective — Doula2014
- Sirmilik2011
- Tungijuq2009
- Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues — Self
- From Rome to Dakar — Nana
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Canada
- Active from
- 1975-05-05
Discography
- Sinaa2005
- Auk/Blood2008
- Animism2014
- Going Home Star: Truth and Reconciliation2015
- Aorta2016
- Retribution2016
- You Got to Run (Spirit of the Wind)2017
- Frostbite2017
- Toothsayer2019
- Tongues2021
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4,041
- Total plays
- 66,146
Tags
In just six short years, groundbreaking Inuk throat singer Tagaq (also known as Tanya Tagaq Gillis and Tanya Tagaq) has brought an ancient Inuit vocal game to the heights of the experimental music scene. She's collaborated with Björk, The Kronos Quartet and Mike Patton and toured with some of the world's leading global artists. Like Björk, Tagaq makes music that is both decidedly unusual and universally appealing on a most primal level. Her innovative <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Tagaq">R
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Tanya
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of birth
- Cambridge Bay
- Occupation
- film director
- Languages spoken
- Inuit
- Award
- Polaris Music Prize
- Genre
- folk music
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- tanyatagaq.com
- Image
- Tanya Tagaq Gillis, 2017 (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 1
Show 11 more facts
- name in native language
- Tanya Tagaq
- date of birth
- 1975-05-05
- Commons category
- Tanya Tagaq
- influenced by
- Björk
- social media followers
- 64498
- nominated for
- Polaris Music Prize
- ethnic group
- Inuit
- start of work period
- 2002-00-00
- birth name
- Tanya Tagaq Gillis
- pseudonym
- Tagaq
- number of viewers/listeners
- 328219
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