(Tanya Tagaq (Iqaluktuutiaq, Victoria Island, Nunavut, Canada, 1977) is an Inuit throat singer.
At the age of 15, Tagaq Gillis went to Yellowknife in the 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 University where she developed her own solo
form of throat singing, traditionally performed by two or more singers. She has collaborated with Björk, Kronos Quartet, Mike Patton, Buck 65 and Shooglenifty).
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