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Tanya 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, Tagaq 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.
With Animism, released in May of 2014, Tagaq grazed the mainstream more so than ever before. And as the winner of the 2014 Polaris Music Prize (the best Canadian album of the year, based solely on artistic merit, regardless of sales or genre) -- for which she beat Arcade Fire, Mac DeMarco and Drake -- the album has ushered her to the forefront of the Canadian indie scene.
One thing that is far different from Mongolian or other forms of throat singing is that in Inuit culture, women are the only throat singers. Back in more tribal times, the women would throat sing with each other as a competition within the community, while men went out and hunted and fished. Inuk throat singing is typically done with two women, but Tagaq has trained her voice to harmonize the sound of two women into one.
July Talk is a Canadian alternative rock band formed in 2012 in Toronto. The band consists of singers Peter Dreimanis and Leah Fay, guitarist Ian Docherty, bassist Josh Warburton, and drummer Danny Miles.
With a reputation for explosive live shows, July Talk has found most of their following on the road. Since the release of their debut album, they have toured Canada, the United States, Europe, and Australia, and played numerous festivals. The band’s highly anticipated sophomore album, Touch, was released on 9 September 2016 by Sleepless Records in Canada, Island Records in the United States and Universal Music Group/Vertigo Records in Europe. "Push + Pull", the album’s first single, held the #1 spot on the Canadian Alternative Radio charts for more than twelve weeks in the summer of 2016 and was released on American Alternative Radio in September 2016.
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Tanya Tagaq
Tanya Tagaq
Tanya 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, Tagaq 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.
With Animism, released in May of 2014, Tagaq grazed the mainstream more so than ever before. And as the winner of the 2014 Polaris Music Prize (the best Canadian album of the year, based solely on artistic merit, regardless of sales or genre) -- for which she beat Arcade Fire, Mac DeMarco and Drake -- the album has ushered her to the forefront of the Canadian indie scene.
One thing that is far different from Mongolian or other forms of throat singing is that in Inuit culture, women are the only throat singers. Back in more tribal times, the women would throat sing with each other as a competition within the community, while men went out and hunted and fished. Inuk throat singing is typically done with two women, but Tagaq has trained her voice to harmonize the sound of two women into one.
July Talk
July Talk is a Canadian alternative rock band formed in 2012 in Toronto. The band consists of singers Peter Dreimanis and Leah Fay, guitarist Ian Docherty, bassist Josh Warburton, and drummer Danny Miles.
With a reputation for explosive live shows, July Talk has found most of their following on the road. Since the release of their debut album, they have toured Canada, the United States, Europe, and Australia, and played numerous festivals. The band’s highly anticipated sophomore album, Touch, was released on 9 September 2016 by Sleepless Records in Canada, Island Records in the United States and Universal Music Group/Vertigo Records in Europe. "Push + Pull", the album’s first single, held the #1 spot on the Canadian Alternative Radio charts for more than twelve weeks in the summer of 2016 and was released on American Alternative Radio in September 2016.
t artist is resent to NSC – I wish you good luck! 
While i'm sad to missed the chance have new acadia as a guest in Effiland in WLSC 211, may I tempt you to vote for the current edition as a warming up exercise? 
welcome back
and happy 100th entry
