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Tanya Tagaq
Also credited as Tagaq, Tanya Taqaq, Tanya Tagaq Gillis
Born May 5, 197551 years oldCambridge Bay, Nunavut, CanadaSound
“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 environmental change.
