“Inuktitut was my first language, but I’m slowly losing it since I don’t really have that opportunity to practice my culture as much as if I lived up north,” she recently said in a TikTok video. “That ...
Samantha Peoyuq Kigutaq is 12 years old and Cailyn Nanauq DeGrandpre just 11, but they are breathing life into a centuries-old Inuit throat-singing technique known as katajjaq. Manipulating their ...
The Urban Inuit Choir performs in St. John's. (Amanda Gear/CBC - image credit) The Urban Inuit Choir performs in St. John's. The Urban Inuit Choir performs in St. John's. (Amanda Gear/CBC) Every year ...
It was mainly a pastime — a type of entertainment for Inuit women and children while men were out in the Arctic hunting. Inuit throat singing is also a competition, as two singers try to mimic each ...
Today a Heard Up North from WAY up North. Inuit throat singing is traditional entertainment from a time and place where people had to amuse... May 03, 2007 — Today a Heard Up North from WAY up North.
Inuk throat singer Shina Novalinga captured audiences last year when she posted a video of her and her mom throat singing on TikTok. Shina Novalinga Uses Social Media To Preserve, Celebrate Inuit ...
Tanya Tagaq's new album, Auk/Blood, is a portrait of a primeval past that is also quite futuristic. Animalistic grunts and howls mix with beatboxing and sensual gasps, the chorus of which emanates ...
Inuksuk Mackay and Tiffany Ayalik of PIQSIQ performed at the World Expo in Osaka, Japan, in June. The throat-singing duo said that it was 'really cool' to share Inuit culture in Japan and to see the ...
Perhaps you've never heard of throat singing. If you have, more than likely it was Tuvan throat singing, which is traditionally done by men, usually by themselves, in Tuva. But Karin and Kathy Kettler ...
Inuit throat-singing duo Silla is getting ready to release a unique double album in June and July. Formed by Charlotte Qamaniq and Cynthia Pitsiulak, the duo has released two powerful singles: ...
Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...