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Tanya Tagaq (born Tanya Tagaq Gillis and sometimes credited as Tagaq) is a Canadian (Inuk) throat singer from Cambridge Bay (Ikaluktuutiak), Nunavut, Canada, on the south coast of Victoria Island.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art-Centre de l'art contemporain canadien ) 〕 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.〔Khanna, Vish.(" Tanya Tagaq Takes it Back" ), ''Exclaim!'', September 2008.〕 ==Life and work== She was a popular performer at Canadian folk festivals, such as Folk on the Rocks in 2005,〔(Performers from 2005 )〕 and first became widely known both in Canada and internationally for her collaborations with Björk, including concert tours and the 2004 album ''Medúlla''. She has also performed with the Kronos Quartet and Shooglenifty and has been featured on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. In 2005, her CD entitled ''Sinaa'' (Inuktitut for "edge") was nominated for five awards at the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards. At the ceremony on 25 October 2005, the CD won awards for Best Producer/Engineer, Best Album Design and Tagaq herself won the Best Female Artist award. ''Sinaa'' was nominated for the 2006 Juno Awards as the Best Aboriginal Recording. Although primarily known for her throat singing, she is also an accomplished artist and her work was featured on the 2003 Northwestel telephone directory.〔(Northwestel Announces Winners Of Directory Cover Art Competition )〕 Her 2008 album ''Auk/Blood'' (''ᐊᐅᒃ'' Inuktitut syllabics)〔(TAGAQ - Auk/Blood )〕〔(Auk, blood at the Asuilaak Living Dictionary )〕 features collaborations with Mike Patton, among others. In 2011, she released a live album titled ''Anuraaqtuq''. It was recorded during Tagaq's performance at the Festival International de Musique Actuelle in Victoriaville. In 2012 Tagaq performed the theme music for the CBC television show ''Arctic Air''.〔(Arctic Air Theme Song )〕 Tagaq released her third album, ''Animism'', on May 27, 2014 on Six Shooter Records.〔(Sneak peak: Tanya Tagaq's new album )〕 The album was a shortlisted nominee for the 2014 Polaris Music Prize, her first nomination for that award,〔("Arcade Fire, Drake, Shad make Polaris Music Prize short list" ). CTV News, July 15, 2014.〕 and won the $30,000 award on September 22, 2014.〔("Tanya Tagaq Wins 2014 Polaris Music Prize" ). ''Exclaim!'', September 22, 2014.〕 The album also won the Juno Award for Aboriginal Recording of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2015,〔("2015 Junos: Bahamas, Arkells, Rush big winners at 'Junos Eve' gala" ). CBC Music, March 14, 2015.〕 and was nominated for Alternative Album of the Year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tanya Tagaq」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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