I'm an opera singer and I see the voice as a musical instrument. And what I particularly appreciate here is her speaking voice. It's placed very high and is very clear. So the low sounds, which on first hearing, for me, sounded injurious, clearly are not. I like it that she knows what she's doing. Evidence of hard work for mastery makes me happy!
Tanya Tagaq is a disgrace to Canada. She is ungrateful, toxic, hateful, and a professional victim. She literally smears all Canadians by claiming internationally to be one of us. Tanya Tagaq doesn't cut it for REAL Canadians, and she is NOT welcome here. SHAME ON TANYA TAGAQ #ProfessionalVictim
Tina is definitely an amazing artist and story teller. Her spirit flows through her whole body as she uses it as an instrument to tell her powerful stories. Also, back home in the villages, there are many girls and women Throat Singing with each other that are also beautiful and Spirit moving to watch. ✌🏽❣
We (as children) used to sing like this on long road trips in the back of the family van, but our sessions were often stopped by our parents who thought we were invoking the devil lol. The feeling was quite exhilarating when we got into a rhythm. I also used to sing like this by myself for entertainment. We're not Inuit, but we are a mixed bunch. Makes me wonder if we were picking up on ancestral pastimes or if we just do things like this as a part of human nature & experimenting with our voices.
😂 You could be on to something. When I was 6 years old, I discovered I could make sounds kind of like Tuvan throat singing. (this was long before I heard of throat singing) I was doing this frequently. (in class) I was asked to stop. 🛑 Repeatedly. 😁
we all human.. someone posted a throat singing central asian female to fb at some central asian cultural event, i WISH i had bookmarked it, not only was girl beautiful, but she could flow with the rhythm like crazy..
I find throat singing incredible, the control and ability is astonishing. It seems to me that it isn't something that can be learnt from a book, it seems to be the sort of art that can only be taught from person to person by direct teaching, and in that sense I suppose that's where I get this idea of true ancestry. The idea of fathers teaching sons, mothers teaching daughters, of even grandparents teaching grandchildren etc, makes it seem incredibly how this art is still practiced today.
Wow, it's astonishing how flexible your voice is transitioning to different aspects in the demonstration. Also that you can so easily go back an forth from throat singing to speaking voice!
It's so interesting how this type of singing can be so natural and so wonderfully great and moving at the same time:) I know some people don't know this but throat singing is also practiced in africa. YES in northern africa it's also a popular way of singing, also done by the woman of the tribes, just as beautifully as Tanya and many other Inuit women. It's amazing because Inuits do it because they were coping the sounds and voices of things in their harsh climate of Canada or Alaska, and they did it as an entertainment relief, well the same goes for people from n. Africa in places like Mali(I think) they do it as entertainment cause of the desert climate can be so rough and the women throat sing when I guess they're bored and need entertainment while the men are gone:) I JUST LOVE IT, ALL OF IT, THROAT SINGING IS THE BOMB. Gooo TANYA!
I mentioned the people and places I knew that do this type of singing, so...calm down, maybe you should've mentioned them yourself a long time ago....shoooooo
Peter Steele.Ha,ha,ha,ha! That tickled me! I'll bet that you're right too!! That'd keep the kids in line.Get to bed or the Snore Monster's gonna come for ya!😆
Oh my gosh. What a beautiful, interesting piece of culture explained by a lovely, talented person in a pleasant and humorous way. This is almost cosmic. I'm gonna look around for more vids with this woman. Thanks loads for posting this. I think she is absolutely captivating.
Tanya Tagaq thank for insight in this version of music....you gifted i listened to as back drop on Buffy St. Marie son you go to run. thanks post Nancy
I'm trying to learn and guess what? I could do ALL she did. So, on to lesson 2. I nailed the double tone today and it seems making ridiculous sounds all my life is helping me now. Love it!
I've been trying to do this without any explanation so I found this to be very informative. Thank you so much for making this available to those of us aspiring to throat sing.
Fun fact: you can't use this kind of exercise of singing to stop your limbic system from freaking out. I also know how to re-register my voice thanks to a single bad day as I failed to get the limbic to stop raping my ass. But I could focus on this concept; while it took a 10 foot 2x4 pressure treated as it slammed my brain last years back. You are a source of light and hope and I thank you.
WOW! I am a big fan of Yat-Kha. I was just telling my kid how our flora and fauna impacts music that originates in different parts of the worlds. In Tibet the Yak makes this grunting sound which I am sure (Just my opinion, not factual) that influenced the Throat singing tradition. A barren landscape with no trees meant no birds to influence the high notes. This however is one of the simplest explanation of throat singing.
Why do I get the feeling that the people who have left belittling comments would gush over rap, raggae, Neue Deutsche Härte, and the like? While this isn't high on my play list, it is rather enjoyable. In small quantities, anyway. And the young lady has an incredible poise and presence.
Christ, she's incredible. I'm a singer (NOT this kind), so I know that there WOULD be ways to do this without ripping your throat to shreds, but that would be quite the technique to learn. I can hear WHERE she's doing it, but I can't tell HOW. It sounds like it's in a very narrow channel, at least in terms of going down to the chest voice, but beyond that, I'm lost. Incredible stuff.
Oh my Grace, this lively and lovely soul should create a course to train speech therapists to help their students and communities. To beautiful for words Ms. Tanya
to me , the whole Medulla album explored this notion of sounds that the body makes and being aware of being a part of living breathing evolution ... you know --- Triumph of the Heart , blood rushing and so on , fascinating really and i can see why Bjork would collaborate with her , reminds me of that piece Ancestors that they did together...
These sounds are so beautiful. Beautiful songs Inuits. This work is made from these songs. It is an incredible work of a Greek named Crhistos Hatzis Fertility Rites
I wish I had learned about this earlier. never been good at singing but this is helpful, also I like how you end your video on a good note! break the glass.
@1955thekeeper i'm just sure that the style of singing from the inuits changed drastically over time from what they would have sung when they were primitive to now. i know what you meant, i find it fascinating because it comes from that traditional style of singing. i think we, in first world, westernised countries that have lost that traditional aspect of their culture forget that just because something is traditional, it doesn't mean it's primitive.
@cicciontek i don't think that's true. it may sort have been in the past, in the era of imperialism and colonisation. but if anything, we're just lazy. a lot of people speak english so we don't need to learn other languages. and i don't think there is one single language that could benefit all the world, all languages have something unique to offer. english just happens to be the most common due to colonisation but it won't necessarily always be that way. french is almost as big as english.
@cicciontek i meant british colonialism. britain isn't colonising libya. learning a language quickly is great. other languages have other things to offer. language is just a way to communicate. i don't think english is superior to other languages, and i also think that if everyone spoke the same language, it would be boring and counter-productive to cultural and artistic progression. why are we even talking about this? i didn't say anything about language in my previous comments.
Who thinks that people should be happy with the elements of throat singing sensation. Why is somebody cringing to throat singing by Tanya tagaq! Who is looking for something like that? I love this video of her doing it.
I know it is inuit throat singing. We have in Sweden Jojk, similiar to througt singing my point was that it´s not like Beatbox there you use your mouth more.
I'm sure it's similar techniques. For the longest time I hated that metal scream, but when I saw a singer in a small club near me who had total mastery of the technique, I suddenly got it. It's really cool.
It sounds more natural to my ears than normal, mainstream singing. It's a bit weird, seeing as I've been listening to it my whole life, and these noises I've never heard before come along and they sound like they're supposed to be there.
