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	TANYA TAGAQ NEW WEBSITE'S / biography
		Michael's performances with Tagaq are less scripted than they may seem.Using the program 'Ableton Live' on a laptop with various other electronics,Michael triggers pre-made loops and sound snippets, mix's Tagaq's voice, and sends both signals through various FX in an highly improvised manor.
		Most of the time, Tagaq’s voice is the only instrument, communicating the emotion of the piece through a stunning array of sounds: aggressive grunts and growls, frantic gasping rhythms and ecstatic, high pitched wails…sometimes layered over additional beds of moans and sighs.
		Tagaq had no partner to practice with and no one to teach her the “right way to do it.” But her growing passion for the form, combined with a series of “cosmic coincidences,” convinced her to make it a primary form of artistic expression.
	www.tanyatagaq.com /biography.html (932 words)

	The Pure Drop: Tanya ‘Tagaq’ Gillis & Celina Kalluk
		Tanya and her cousin Celina are Inuit women from the remote Arctic regions of Canada, who perform a unique style of traditional throat singing.
		Tanya ‘Tagaq’ Gillis was born and raised in the remote Inuit community of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, where she had only passing exposure to throat singing.
		As Inuit throat singing is traditionally performed by two women — and Tagaq had no Inuk partner to sing with — she had to re-invent throat singing as a solo form.
	www.thepuredrop.com.au /artists/tagaq.htm (371 words)

	CD Baby: TANYA TAGAQ GILLIS: Sinaa
		Most of the time, Tagaq’s voice is the only instrument, communicating the emotion of the piece through a stunning array of sounds: aggressive grunts and growls, frantic gasping rhythms and ecstatic, high pitched wails…sometimes layered over additional beds of moans and sighs.
		Tagaq had no partner to practice with and no one to teach her the “right way to do it.” But her growing passion for the form, combined with a series of “cosmic coincidences,” convinced her to make it a primary form of artistic expression.
		Tagaq’s first public performance was at a Cambridge Bay talent contest with an old friend who had also been learning to sing.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/ttgillis (837 words)

	Jericho Beach Music
		Most of the time, Tagaq’s voice is the only instrument, communicating the emotion of the piece through a stunning array of sounds: aggressive grunts and growls, frantic gasping rhythms and ecstatic, high pitched wails, sometimes layered over additional beds of moans and sighs.
		Nunuvut-born Tanya Tagaq Gillis drags the ancient Inuit tradition of throat singing into the pop age, using elements of hip-hop and multi-track layering.
		Tanya Tagaq is a compelling artist whose electrifying throat-singing acts as a sonic gateway into the primal essense of humanity.
	www.festival.bc.ca /jerichobeach/?artist=tagaq (1165 words)

	Guelph Jazz Festival - 2006 Artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Tanya Tagaq Gillis, Oliver Schroer & Ravi Naimpally
		Tanya Tagaq Gillis, Oliver Schroer and Ravi Naimpally (Nunavut/BC/ON)
		Born in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, and best known for her extensive collaboration with Bjork, Tanya Tagaq Gillis is a contemporary exponent of the remarkable tradition of Inuit throat-singing.
	www.guelphjazzfestival.com /2006season/artists (983 words)

	Tanya Tagaq Gillis of Mumiq Music wins BDC's Young Entrepreneur Award for Nunavut.- BDC
		Tanya, 27, is a visual artist and accomplished throat singer who has performed for audiences all over North America and in Europe, and she is also the Business Development Bank of Canada's (BDC) winner of the Young Entrepreneur Award for Nunavut.
		Tanya is a trailblazer, a self-taught throat singer whose determination to make a business out of her passion for music has paid off.
		Tanya feels the most important thing to her is to spread the message of her own culture each time she performs.
	www.bdc.ca /en/about/mediaroom/news_releases/2002/2002102103.htm?cookie_test=2&iNoC=1 (719 words)

	Canku Ota - June 28, 2003 - Tanya Tagaq Gillis and Michael Deveau
		The collaboration of Tanya Tagaq Gillis and Michael Deveau takes traditional music from Canada's North and blends it effortlessly with an underpinning of urban music to create something quite new and breathtaking.
		Gillis was born in the remote Inuit town of Cambridge Bay (population 2,500).
		When Gillis met Michel Deveau, she began to jam over the beats that he supplied and laid her voice down over a dynamic mélange of recordings in what has proven to be an exciting meld of primitivism and sensuality.
	www.turtletrack.org /Issues03/Co06282003/CO_06282003_Gillis.htm (429 words)

	TheStar.com - Throat singer makes her mark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Gillis (Tagaq is her Inuit name) spends half the year in Ugarte's home city, San Sebastian, Spain, and the other half in Cambridge Bay, where she has been known to join the caribou hunt.
		Gillis, who left home at 15 to attend high school in Yellowknife, was studying art at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax when she began listening to tapes of Inuit throat singing that her mother sent her as a cure for homesickness.
		Gillis had no partner to sing with, so she began exploring throat singing as a solo activity.
	www.thestar.com /NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1143586211976&call_pageid=968867495754&StarSource=RSS (772 words)

	nor-art.com
		Inuit artist Tanya Tagaq Gillis was born and raised in Cambridge Bay, in Canada’s newest Territory, Nunavut.
		Tanya’s subjects are intensely personal and painted in an impressionistic style with bright colours and bold brush strokes.
		With her incredible artistic talents and a larger than life personality, Tanya Tagaq Gillis is without a doubt a rising star for whom the sky is the limit.
	www.nor-art.com /index.php?option=com_norart&artist_id=18&type=profile&FromPage=SM (227 words)

	Nunatsiaq News
		Gillis, speaking on the phone from her apartment in Montreal, said while music is one of her creative outlets, her painting is still of equal importance.
		Working solely in oils, Gillis said she has been painting since she was a young girl, and is excited to see the phone book when she returns home.
		Gillis, who is still an independent musician, said she’s hoping her own CD will be released in the very near future.
	www.nunatsiaq.com /archives/nunavut030228/news/nunavut/30228_07.html (535 words)

	Scottish Arts Council - Music Artist of the month
		Tanya Tagaq Gillis performs at Womex 2007 and tours Scotland with Shooglenifty in November.
		Tanya Tagaq Gillis brings the ancient Inuit vocal art of throat-singing to the experimental music scene.Â She has worked with internationally acclaimed musicians such as Bjork and the Kronos Quartet, and recently with Scottish band Shooglenifty.
		Tagaq grew up in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, but had little exposure to the centuries-old art form of throat-singing.Â In her final year of art schoolÂ in Halifax however,Â she began to emulate tapes of throat-singing her mother had sent from home as a cure for homesickness.
	www.scottisharts.org.uk /1/artsinscotland/music/features/artistofthemonth.aspx (232 words)

	Tanya Tagaq Gillis, Oliver Schroer and Ravi Naimpally :: 2006 :: Guelph Jazz Festival
		Tanya Tagaq Gillis, Oliver Schroer and Ravi Naimpally
		The three artists, Tanya Tagaq Gillis, Oliver Schroer and Ravi Naimpally, had all played with each other in different configurations at different times, but this was the first time they had performed as a trio.
		Tanya has used Inuit throat singing to bring an entirely new way of vocalizing into music.
	www.thelivemusicreport.com /2006/September/Tanya_Oliver_Ravi_sep06.html (470 words)

	Throat singing taken to new level (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Yellowknife (Mar 26/04) - Before the birth of her daughter Naia last September, Tanya Tagaq Gillis was only juggling careers as a singer and a painter.
		Tanya Tagaq Gillis performs in 2002 at Fort Smith.
		Normally throatsinging is performed by two or more women, but Gillis takes the Inuit musical tradition and blends it with modern music for a unique effect.
	www.nnsl.com /frames/newspapers/frames/newspapers/2004-03/mar26_04sing.html (351 words)

	Nunatsiaq News
		Gillis’ passport is a ticket to a rarefied world of artistic and commercial opportunity.
		Gillis estimates that Björk saw the documentary "a month ago," because that’s when Björk’s agent called Gillis, who was performing at a folk festival in Vancouver at the time.
		Gillis began throat-singing in 1998, mainly to prove that she’s an Inuk.
	www.nunatsiaq.com /archives/nunavut010831/nvt10824_15.html (748 words)

	Global Divas :: 2006 :: The Live Music Report
		Tanya Tagaq Gillis, the maternal spirit, introduced us to the age old art of throat singing.
		Tanya shares her peals of laughter, her love of her culture and her joy with the other performers.
		Her cousin, Celina Kalluk, must be noted for helping Tanya demonstrate traditional throat singing in which two singers embrace and reflect each other's sounds.
	www.thelivemusicreport.com /2006/March/GlobalDivas_mar06.html (524 words)

	SalsaTO - 2006 Global Divas
		Tanya's performance was truly unique as she introduced many of us to the concept of throat singing.
		Tanya went on to perform a duet with Jane Bunnett on the flute and their distinct styles complemented each other perfectly.
		Tanya Tagaq Gilles was asked to perform and happily obliged.
	www.salsato.ca /2006-global-divas.html (1166 words)

	Preview: Shaman Voices, The Shed, Hovingham Village Hall, May 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Wimme is a modern interpreter of the Sámi yoik, his voice spanning sweet falsetto to grainy baritone to the accompaniment of fuzzy synthesisers, strings, keyboards and animal samples.
		Tanya Tagaq Gillis was raised in the remote Inuit town of Cambridge Bay and has gravitated towards the tradition of Inuit throat singing.
		Her ability to emulate the environment, such as the groaning of moving glaciers and the undulation of the sea, led to an invitation to sing on Bjork's latest album, Medulla.
	archive.thisisyork.co.uk /2005/5/6/225136.html (280 words)

	Tagaq \| internet radio on icebergradio.com
		Tanya Tagaq Gillis is a singer from Cambridge Bay, Nunuvut who is bringing traditional Inuit throat singing into the 21st century with avant-garde style.
		Tagaq has released two thought-provoking albums of her own: Iluani (with Basque txalaparta players Ugarte Anaiak and fiddler Oliver Schroer), and the solo album Sinaa, which means Edge.
		In November 2005, Tagaq won three Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards, including Best Female Artist, and she recently signed a recording deal with Jericho Beach Music and Festival Distribution in Vancouver.
	www.icebergradio.com /tanyatagaq (159 words)

	Kronos Quartet: Music in a Time of War
		Tagaq often incorporates many non-traditional musical styles—including electronica, dance music, and rave—into her singing.
		The collaboration of Tanya Tagaq and DJ Michael Deveau in 2002 takes traditional music from Canada’s North and blends it effortlessly with an underpinning of urban music to create something quite new and breathtaking.
		Tagaq’s album Sinaa was released in 2005 to critical acclaim and won several of Canada’s Aboriginal Music Awards, including Best Female Artist.
	carnegiehall.org /article/box_office/events/evt_5618_ma.html?... (1147 words)

	Sounds like nature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Chatting amiably from her home in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Tanya Tagaq's voice is sweet, subdued and almost childlike -- a complete contrast to how the 28-year-old Inuit throat singer sounds when she performs.
		Now the world's most famous Inuit throat singer, Tagaq was a relatively unknown painter who sang as a hobby just six years ago when she was asked to fill a gap in a concert at an art festival in Inuvik.
		Born in 1977, Tanya Tagaq Gillis is the daughter of an Inuit Grade One teacher and a British air traffic controller who was transferred to Resolute Bay and decided to settle there.
	www.canada.com /nationalpost/artslife/story.html?id=9a74b903-11a9-44d4-b164-d278b376dff8&k=41255&p=1 (592 words)

	Hip-hop and throat singing at Stockey - Parry Sound
		Groundbreaking Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq Gillis has brought an ancient Inuit vocal game to the heights of the international music scene in her collaborations with Bjork and the Kronos Quartet.
		Tanya Tagaq Gillis makes music that is both unusual and universally appealing on a most primal level.
		In the majority of her songs, Tagaq’s voice is the only instrument, communicating the emotion of the piece through a stunning array of sound: aggressive grunts and growls, frantic gasping rhythms and ecstatic, high pitched wails…sometimes layered over additional beds of moans and sighs.
	www.parrysound.com /fun/1158171154 (653 words)

	Kronos Quartet: Music in a Time of War
		Tagaq was born May 5, 1975, in Cambridge Bay, Canada; now lives in Urnieta, Spain, and Cambridge Bay.
		Harrington says, “Inuit throat singing is one of the most string-like sounds that I’ve ever heard come from the human voice.” However, it was not until 2002 that he discovered a recording of Tanya Tagaq and realized immediately that he had found his collaborator.
		Tanya Tagaq was born in the remote Inuit town of Cambridge Bay in Northern Canada.
	carnegiehall.org /textSite/box_office/events/evt_5618.html?... (2156 words)

	The Sheaf - University of Saskatchewan Student Newspaper - Tagaq - Sinna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Five parts Discovery Channel lonely tundra documentary, two parts Gollum “my precious” brow-furrowing mutterings, one part haunting-wail-from-Titanic, and infinity parts Bjork’s little Inuit sister, Tagaq (Tanya Tagaq Gillis) is a newcomer to the music scene who can legitimately claim to break away from the usual.
		Desperate to overcome homesickness by touching base with her roots, the Nunavut native started to mimic tapes of throat-singers sent by her mother.
		Tagaq combines “the growls of animals and the sighs of the wind.” Tagaq’s voice evokes Ice Age-like images of animal-skinned sleds skating across vast whiteness, sometimes slowing down to water the dogs, then speeding up again for the hunt.
	www.thesheaf.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1558&Itemid=53 (212 words)

	Tanya Tagaq Gillis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tanya Tagaq Gillis (BFA) (sometimes credited as Tagaq) is an Inuit throat singer from Cambridge Bay (Ikaluktuutiak), Nunavut, Canada, on the south coast of Victoria Island.
		In 2005 her CD entitled Sinaa (Inuktitut for Edge) was nominated for five awards at the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards.
		Tagaq currently lives in Spain with her husband and daughter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tanya_Tagaq_Gillis (256 words)

	Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards 2007
		Tagaq's new CD, Sinaa (say"sih-NAA"), displays her technique through a collection of original improvisations and three traditional Inuk throat songs.
		Most of the time, Tagaq's voice is the only instrument, communicating the emotion of the piece through a stunning array of sounds: aggressive grunts and growls, frantic gasping rhythms and ecstatic, high pitched wails: sometimes layered over additional beds of moans and sighs.
		Bjork describes Tagaq as "like Edith Piaf or something, totally emotional." CBC's Zed describes her as "an outgoing, enigmatic and astounding performer, composer and improviser, revered, controversial, personable, humble, alluring, terrifying." They add "Tanya Tagaq Gillis is possibly the most unique performer of truly traditional, Canadian music in our country."
	www.aboriginalpeopleschoice.com /artists?eid1118=327 (768 words)

	Yasiv Marin \| Make-Up Blog: February 2007
		Because of her unique talent, Tanya was quickly discovered and has collaborated and toured all over the world with big artists including Bjork and the Kronos Quartet.
		Tanya's debut album was released in October of 2002.
		Tanya was featured here on the cover (above) of the winter 2006 issue of Words & Music Magazine by Socan where you can see the makeup job I did on her.
	www.yasivmarin.com /blog/archive/2007_02_01_archive.html (302 words)

	World Music Central - Your connection to World Music
		Tanya Tagaq Gillis is a performer and improviser of Inuit throat singing.
		Tanya Tagaq Gillis can perform solo but prefers to improvise with other capable musicians.
		Tanya Tagaq Gillis has released a debut CD, performed mainstage at some of North America's most prestigious Folk festivals, toured internationally with Icelandic legend, Bjork, and collaborated with Kronos Quartet.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /artists/artist_page.php?id=873 (298 words)

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