Elisapie
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Elisapie Isaac (also known simply as Elisapie; syllabics: ; born 1977) is a Canadian Inuk musician, broadcaster, documentary filmmaker, activist, and actress. She spent her childhood in Salluit, Nunavik, Quebec, and moved to Montreal in 1999 to pursue communication studies in order to become a journalist.
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- Female
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- Canada
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- 1977-03-13
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Elisapie Isaac (also known simply as Elisapie; syllabics: ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) is a Canadian Inuk musician, broadcaster, documentary filmmaker, and activist. She spent her childhood in Salluit, Nunavik, Quebec, and moved to Montreal in 1999 to pursue communication studies in order to become a journalist. Born in Salluit, Quebec to an Inuk mother and a father from Newfoundland, she performed at age twelve with the Salluit band Sugluk. Isaac collaborated with <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Elisapie">Read mor
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- L’histoire d’un projet communautaire inuit porteur d’initiatives d’autochtonisation de l’éducation
· 2025
- Récit d’une expérience pratique de développement collaboratif d’un lexique en éducation en inuktitut pour la formation enseignante au Nunavik
· 2024
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- Elisapie
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- Elisapie seen from right profile, appearing to wear a traditional Indigenous outfit with matching earrings, standing onstage and speaking/singing into a microphone, both hands gesticulating
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- Elisapie performing in 2024
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- Elisapie Isaac
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- Salluit, Quebec, Canada
- Person.years_active
- 1989—present
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- Biography
- ''If the Weather Permits''
- Personal life
- Awards and nominations
- Discography
- Filmography
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Elisapie Isaac (also known simply as Elisapie; syllabics: ; born 1977) is a Canadian Inuk musician, broadcaster, documentary filmmaker, activist, and actress. She spent her childhood in Salluit, Nunavik, Quebec, and moved to Montreal in 1999 to pursue communication studies in order to become a journalist.
==Biography== Born in Salluit, Quebec to an Inuk mother and a father from Newfoundland, she performed at age twelve with the Salluit band Sugluk, one of whose members was her uncle George Kakayuk. Isaac collaborated with instrumentalist Alain Auger in the musical project Taima (Inuktitut for "that's all" or "it is done") in the early 2000s. The band's sole album, Taima, won the Juno Award for Aboriginal Recording of the Year in 2005. In 2006, Isaac wrote lyrics for songs composed by Bruno Coulais for the film The White Planet.
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