Tanya Tagaq
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Tanya Tagaq, Moers Festival 2012 Tanya Tagaq CM （born Tanya Tagaq Gillis, May 5, 1975）, also credited as Tagaq, is a Canadian Inuk throat singer from Cambridge Bay （Iqaluktuuttiaq）, Nunavut, Canada, on the south coast of Victoria Island.
At the age of 15, after attending school in Cambridge Bay, Tagaq went to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, to attend Sir John Franklin High School where she first began to practice throat singing.
She later studied visual arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and while there developed her own solo form of Inuit throat singing, which is normally done by two women.
Her decision to go solo was a pragmatic one: she did not have a singing partner.
Tagaq was a popular performer at Canadian folk festivals, such as Folk on the Rocks in 2005, and first became widely known both in Canada and internationally for her collaborations with Björk, including concert tours and the 2004 album Medúlla.
She has also performed with the Kronos Quartet and Shooglenifty and has been featured on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.
In 2005, her CD entitled Sinaa （Inuktitut for "edge"） was nominated for five awards at the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards.
At the ceremony on 25 October 2005, the CD won awards for Best Producer/Engineer, Best Album Design and Tagaq herself won the Best Female Artist award.
Sinaa was nominated for the 2006 Juno Awards as the Best Aboriginal Recording.
Although primarily known for her throat singing, Tagaq is also an accomplished artist and her work was featured on the 2003 Northwestel telephone directory.
Her 2008 album Auk/Blood （ᐊᐅᒃ Inuktitut syllabics） feat...