My guest today, Elizabeth, was born in the Arctic Circle and grew up in a small town called

Stalluit, where the climate is incredibly rugged and beautiful and living in harmony with

nature is pretty much a mandate.

She loved the town she grew up in, but was kind of always dreaming of the south.

Speaking of mix of enuctitude, English and French, she also fell in love with music at

a young age, began singing and composing, and eventually found her way to Montreal, where

she began raising a family and building a career in the world of music, releasing albums

and touring the world as both a musician and an ambassador for Inuit culture.

Her new multi-award winning up on the ballad of the runaway girl, it's kind of the musical

tale of an ex-patriate ennook.

She sings about the different facets and challenges of being a woman, but also an adopted

child, a mother and a lover, and through this exploration of her northern roots and her

femininity, we learn about a person who is proud of her origins and who worked for the

recognition of her people's historic difficulties.

Rolling Stone France called it a delicately violent album that seduces as much as it questions.

An NPR said, Elizabeth synthesizes stories from her eventful life with hypnotic arrangements

that channel 70s rock, indigenous folk music, and the low moody rumble of barnstormers

like comwates.

I have to agree with all of this.

In this conversation, we trace and dive into her journey from the very earliest days,

telling a deeply moving story of actually her adoption and growing up in a town where

she lived just a few blocks away from her birth parents, and her transformation deep interest

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