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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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Salluit, Québec, Canada
Elisapie Isaac (born 1977 in Salluit, Nunavik, Quebec), better known artistically as Elisapie (Inuktitut syllabary: ᐃᓕᓴᐱ), is an Inuk singer-songwriter and producer from Quebec.
Known for
- Nunami: là où le vent chante2025
- Hudson Bay(bies)2025
- V F C2024
- Émile Bilodeau et ses invités aux Francos 2022 — Self2022
- Paradise Motel — Sabrina Bérubé-Caron2022
- Elisapie : faire face à la musique2021
- Le grand solstice — Self2021
- Le grand solstice — Self2021
- Une chance qu'on s'a — Self - Guest Artist2020
- Soul — Miali (voice)2020
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Canada
- Active from
- 1977-03-13
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 28,915
- Total plays
- 187,733
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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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- 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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- Salluit, Quebec, Canada
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- 1989—present
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- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of birth
- Salluit
- Occupation
- singer-songwriter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- pop music
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.elisapie.com
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- Elisapie (53973660679) (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1977-01-01
- nominated for
- Polaris Music Prize
- ethnic group
- Inuit
- social media followers
- 15200
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- Elisapie Isaac
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Biography
- ''If the Weather Permits''
- Personal life
- Awards and nominations
- Discography
- Filmography
- Acting roles
- Filmmaking roles
- References
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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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