Born and raised in Salluit, a small village in Nunavik which is only accessible by plane, Elisapie is an emblematic Canadian Inuk singer-songwriter.
Now based in Montreal, the Juno Award winner recently released her fourth solo record, the incredibly moving Inuktitut.
On this album, she covers ten classic rock and pop songs translated into Inuktitut, her mother tongue. She's stripped them down to their essence and rebuilt them into renditions that, to a song, rival the original recordings.
As you'll hear in our chat, when I asked her how she went about choosing the songs, she said that if it made her cry, then she knew she was on the right track.
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