![]() ![]() (The severance of ties between Indigenous people and their communities and traditions is a major theme in her music and life.) When Tagaq’s family was moved to the settlement at Cambridge Bay during her childhood, she felt pressured to assimilate other kids discouraged speaking Inuktitut, an Inuit language. Tagaq, who was born to an Inuit family in Nunavut, didn’t grow up practicing the form. The game ends when one person laughs or runs out of breath. Usually, two performers face each other, each holding the other’s arms and generating sounds that mimic nature-grunts, squeals, squawks, coos, and crows-for the other to answer. The tradition of Inuit throat singing originated as a playful contest between women. ![]() It is her technique and vision that have made her one of the most celebrated and innovative practitioners of her culture’s visceral style. Her performing, at once animalistic and operatic, brings a spirit of experimentation to an old tradition: in the course of her career, Tagaq, an advocate for Indigenous rights and cultural practices, has updated the exercise to include drums, electronica, and even spoken-word poetry. ![]() ![]() The form that she practices uses guttural sounds and breaths to produce a physical performance of groans, gasps, and sighs, conjuring a sonic landscape which is by turns rhythmic and melodic. The Canadian Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq makes music that seems to cleanse the body. ![]()
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