Tanya Tagaq Gillis
Folk music, Musical Artist
1977 –
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Who is Tanya Tagaq Gillis?
Tanya Tagaq is an Inuk throat singer from Cambridge Bay, 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.
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- Born
- 1977
Cambridge Bay - Also known as
- Tagaq
- Tanya Tagaq
- Nationality
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University
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on July 23, 2013
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