ArtistInfo

Tanya Tagaq

voc, *1975 CA, Cambridge Bay
Singer / Songwriter of World, Electronic and Folk
A.k.a. Tanya Tagaq Gillis

Tanya Tagaq (born Tanya Tagaq Gillis and sometimes credited as Tagaq; born May 5, 1975) is a Canadian (Inuk) throat singer from Cambridge Bay (Iqaluktuutiaq), Nunavut, Canada, on the south coast of Victoria Island. After attending school in Cambridge Bay, at age 15, she went to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories to attend 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.

Genres

• World
• Electronic
• Folk
• Rock
• Classical

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