Inuk singer Elisapie developed her love of music in a place that you’ve likely never heard of before. The Juno Award–winning musician was born and raised in Salluit, a small village in Nunavik (Quebec ...

A warning: The following piece includes references to suicide. When Elisapie thinks of her hometown of Salluit, she can almost hear the breeze. "It's like you can always be purified," she says. "You ...

The start to what Inuk musician Elisapie calls a “healing journey” began as many complicated, cathartic experiences do, with Swedish pop music. “I’m jogging to ABBA’s Super Trouper, and all of a ...

Just like the songs on Inuktitut, “Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy)” is inspired by one of Elisapie’s childhood memories: “An image that always comes to mind, no matter where I travel or live, is ...

Ahead of the Friday (9/15) release of her new record Inuktitut via Bonsound, Elisapie has shared “Qimatsilunga (I Want to Break Free)”, a gripping Queen cover translated into her native language. Like ...

Is there a song in your life that immediately conjures up memories? For the artist Elisapie, there are 10 of these songs — and she's included them all on her new album, Inuktitut. While the project ...

Elisapie, a Canadian Inuk singer-songwriter, plumbs new sadness in one of Metallica‘s biggest, most emotional hits on her recording, “Isumagijunnaitaungituq (The Unforgiven).” Where the metal band ...

Among a vast crowd of talented musicians from the North, Salluit-born, Montreal-based singer Elisapie has distinguished herself as one of the most prolific. In the early 90s, when she was 12, she was ...

Elisapie's latest album, The Ballad of the Runaway Girl, is out now. At the northern tip of Quebec, tucked in a valley and hugging the ocean, is the Inuit community of Salluit where the ...

We live in a world with many barriers: language, misunderstandings and a lack of diverse representation can keep people from connecting. Singer-songwriter, director and Inuk activist Elisapie Isaac is ...

At the northern tip of Quebec, tucked in a valley and hugging the ocean, is the Inuit community of Salluit where the singer-songwriter Elisapie grew up. At age 19, she left to settle in Montreal — a ...