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March 26th, 2024

Elisapie wins the JUNO Award for Contemporary Indigenous Artist of the Year

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March 1st, 2024

Elisapie delves into a childhood memory in the music video for Sinnatuumait, her cover of Fleetwood Mac's Dreams

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February 8th, 2024

Elisapie nominated at the Junos!

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December 5th, 2023

Elisapie and Population II awarded at the GAMIQ 

November 22nd, 2023

Elisapie presents a cover of Eurythmics' Love Is A Stranger and a new version of her song Arnaq exclusively via Spotify

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October 12th, 2023

Our 2023 GAMIQ nominations

September 20th, 2023

Elisapie releases Inuktitut, her highly anticipated fourth album!

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September 13th, 2023

Elisapie unveils a poignant rendition of I Want To Break Free two days before the release of Inuktitut

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August 2nd, 2023

Elisapie puts her own spin on a Rolling Stones ballad just weeks before the release of her album Inuktitut

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June 21st, 2023

Elisapie covers Metallica in Inuktitut and announces new Montreal and Quebec City dates

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April 19th, 2023

Elisapie presents Taimangalimaaq (Time After Time), a Cyndi Lauper cover, and reveals the details of her upcoming album, Inuktitut

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March 7th, 2023

Elisapie unveils Uummati Attanarsimat (Heart of Glass), a delicate cover of Blondie's hit and announces live performances of her new show Uvattini

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October 1st, 2020

2020 ADISQ Nominations

June 19th, 2020

Elisapie unveils Asuguuq

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May 15th, 2020

Elisapie, P'tit Belliveau and Radio Radio live at StudioFest

February 20th, 2020

Elisapie featured on NPR’s Tiny Desk a few weeks before going on tour

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November 21st, 2019

Safia Nolin and Elisapie nominated at the 2020 Canadian Folk Music Awards

October 24th, 2019

Les Louanges, Elisapie and Milk & Bone won awards at the Premier Gala de l'ADISQ and the Gala de l'Industrie

October 3rd, 2019

2019 GAMIQ Nominations

September 17th, 2019

2019 ADISQ Nominations

Elisapie unveils Uummati Attanarsimat (Heart of Glass), a delicate cover of Blondie's hit and announces live performances of her new show Uvattini

Nearly four years after the release of The Ballad of the Runaway Girl, her stunning third solo album, Elisapie unveils* Uummati Attanarsimat (Heart of Glass)*, an Inuktitut rendition of Blondie's 1979 hit. The Inuk artist also announces Uvattini, a series of shows which will be presented in Montreal and Quebec City in December 2023.

Translated from English to Inuktitut by Elisapie, and produced by her long-time collaborator Joe Grass, Uummati Attanarsimat (Heart of Glass) was inspired by a childhood memory of hers:

My adoptive mother was from the small village of Ivujivik. It was a 30 minute plane ride from my village. We would often go there to visit her family. Once we arrived in Ivujivik, my parents would go gambling at some random cousin’s house. I would later have mixed feelings towards their gambling addiction. But not back then.

Back then, it meant the children were free to do whatever they pleased. The older kids were the ones who ran the show and they knew how to throw a party. When I was around 5 or 6 years old, I remember one particular night when they put Heart of Glass on. They all started dancing like crazy. I watched their joy with such admiration. I couldn’t believe I got to stay up so late. I felt so loved by my maniacal babysitters. They laughed at me and swung me around. They treated me like the most beautiful doll. When this song comes on, I am back in that wonderful small dance hall of sorts with my big cousins.

And even though it was a tiny venue, in a tiny village, isolated from the rest of the world, in my mind, it still was the wildest crowded dancefloor, in the coolest, most dynamic discotheque in the world.

Elisapie's new song comes with a video directed by Philippe Léonard using archival footage shot on Super 8 film in the Far North of Quebec. Showcasing breathtaking landscapes as well as various elements of the Inuit winter lifestyle through a collection of everyday scenes, the footage was obtained from the Avataq Cultural Institute and the Mary & Bill Cowley Collection.

Taking place at Usine C in Montréal on December 7th and 8th, as well as at Grand Théâtre in Quebec City on December 21st, Elisapie's new show combines music, narration, video and performance to create a space of ritual where past and present merge, bringing out sweet but also sad memories and powerful emotions. Titled Uvattini (which means "home" in Inuktitut) and directed by Émilie Monnet, the live experience bears witness to Elisapie's personal story and that of her community of Salluit, a village located in the very north of Nunavik. With its documentary and poetic nature, Uvattini embodies, both visually and musically, the Inuit identity and the cultural significance of their territory. By incorporating various projections, the show reveals landscapes and intimate slices of life, creating movements to accompany the songs, like a pulse that beats to the rhythm of the music.

Tickets for Uvattini will go on sale on March 10th.

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