Tanya Tagaq's intense, evocative vocalizations, based on Inuit throat singing traditions, help reclaim indigenous identity and dignity from the controversial 1922 film Nanook of the North, one of ...

When Tanya Tagaq sat down at her home near Toronto for an interview with NPR's Morning Edition, she immediately described an aura: The avant-garde musician had been experiencing visual sensations from ...

Eskimeaux, the project of Gabby Smith (who used to play in Frankie Cosmos’ band and was a member of the now-defunct Epoch collective), have changed their band name. Two years ago, Gabby posted a ...

Tanya Tagaq looks as if she’s having an out-of-body experience onstage. Her voice flickers like a sonic candle, rising and fading with the music. It becomes guttural as Tagaq drops to her knees, and ...

An explicit, potent musical manifesto, demanding to repossess what colonization has stolen from Tanya Tagaq's culture. Tanya Tagaq, 'Tongues' To witness Tanya Tagaq in person can be a brave, even life ...

Tagaq, an Inuk throat singer, marries modern pop with deeply-vested tradition to gobsmacking effect. The songs on her new album, Retribution,... Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the ...

Chances are you won't be hearing Tanya Tagaq's music at your next dinner party or wafting over the speakers at the mall. She is technically a pop star, but not in the same vein as, say, her fellow ...

Before she began an impressive extended performance, Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq noted that she doesn’t perform in the traditional style. Traditional throat singing, she told the crowd at Lincoln ...

You hear a lot of different types of music on World Cafe, but you may not have ever heard anything like Tanya Tagaq, who has collaborated with Björk and won Canada's prestigious Polaris Music Prize.

Tanya Tagaq has a less-than-subtle metaphor for what she expects might happen on Feb. 17, when she returns to the stage for a rare live appearance since taking a break back in 2020. Accompanied by ...

Late in the mesmerizing concert doc Ever Deadly, musician and author Tanya Tagaq gives her camera crew an interview among flat rocks cascading near a shore in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. She talks about ...