Elisapie
blurry picture of Elisapie onstage in front of a microphone, with right hand help up to her chest
Isaac performing in 2011
Born
Elisapie Isaac

1977 (age 46–47)
Salluit, Quebec, Canada
Occupations
  • Musician
  • documentary filmmaker
Years active1989—present
Websiteelisapie.com

Elisapie Isaac (also known simply as Elisapie; syllabics: ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) is a Canadian Inuk musician, broadcaster, documentary filmmaker, and activist.[1][2] She spent her childhood in Salluit, Nunavik, Quebec, and moved to Montreal in 1999 to pursue communication studies in order to become a journalist.[3]

Biography

Born in Salluit, Quebec to an Inuk mother and a father from Newfoundland,[4] she performed at age twelve with the Salluit band Sugluk.[5] Isaac collaborated with instrumentalist Alain Auger in the musical project Taima (Inuktitut for "that's all" or "it is done"[6][7]) in the early 2000s. The band's sole album, Taima, won the Juno Award for Aboriginal Recording of the Year in 2005. In 2006, Isaac wrote lyrics for songs composed by Bruno Coulais for the film The White Planet.

In 2010, Isaac's first solo album, There Will Be Stars, was released by Pheromone Recordings.[4] On the album, she sings in English, French, and Inuktitut. Her second solo album, Travelling Love, was released in October 2012 under the name Elisapie. During the Juno Awards, she was mistakenly nominated as Breakthrough Artist of the Year, before it was revealed that she had been a Juno winner in 2005; the nomination was rescinded and given to Shawn Hook instead.[8] She garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Original Song at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards for her song "Far Away", which appeared in the film The Legend of Sarila. She was nominated for the Juno Award for Indigenous Music Album of the Year in 2019 for The Ballad of the Runaway Girl.[9] In July 2019, the album was shortlisted for the 2019 Polaris Music Prize.[10] This album again contained lyrics in English, French, and Inuktitut.

Isaac has an extensive background in media production as well. When asked about her work in this medium in relation to her music, she has stated "I really believe that communication and radio was really a place for me to express my inner creativity, and I love that medium. And it has helped me to be a little more aware, especially when I have to be doing interviews and have a larger vision of my work than just the artiste point of view".[11]

In 2021, Isaac was announced to have landed her first acting role, in C.S. Roy's forthcoming augmented reality film, V F C.[12]

If the Weather Permits

Isaac's 2003 National Film Board of Canada documentary If the Weather Permits, filmed in Kangiqsujuaq, northern Quebec, looks at the changing lifestyles of Inuit in Nunavik. The film received several awards, including the Claude Jutra Award for best new director at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, and the Rigoberta Menchú Prize at the First Peoples' Festival.[2][13] It is included in the 2011 Inuit film anthology Unikkausivut: Sharing Our Stories.[14]

Personal life

Isaac dated actor Patrice Robitaille from 2003 to 2011. In 2006, she gave birth to a daughter, named Lili-Alacie. She also has a son, born in 2014. In February 2018, she revealed that she was pregnant with her third child, a boy.[15]

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Nominee/Work Result Ref
2005 Juno Award Aboriginal Recording of the Year Taima Won [6]
2014 Canadian Screen Award Best Original Song Far Away Nominated
2019 Juno Award Indigenous Music Album of the Year The Ballad of the Runaway Girl Nominated [9]
2019 Polaris Music Prize Long List, Short List The Ballad of the Runaway Girl Nominated
2019 Félix Awards Indigenous Artist of the Year Elisapie Nominated [16]
2020 Elisapie Won [17]

Discography

Taima

  • Taima (2004)

Solo

  • There Will Be Stars (2010)
  • Travelling Love (2012)
  • The Ballad of the Runaway Girl (2018)
  • Eaux turbulentes (2020) – television soundtrack, with Frédéric Levac[18]
  • Inuktitut (2023)

Filmography

Year Film Credited as Notes Ref.
Director Writer
2003 If the Weather Permits Yes Yes short documentary film [19]

References

  1. ↑ "Inuit pop, Algonquin rap, Innu reggae aim for mainstream". Agence France-Presse, October 8, 2009.
  2. 1 2 "Profile: Elisapie Isaac". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Isaac, Elisapie | Inuit Literatures ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐊᓪᓚᒍᓯᖏᑦ Littératures inuites". inuit.uqam.ca. Retrieved June 3, 2021.
  4. 1 2 "Elisapie Isaac to play Iqaluit at month’s end". Nunatsiaq Online, March 8, 2010.
  5. ↑ Dicknoether, Alan. "The First Talentshow Salluit: Forging a bond between generations". Above & Beyond: Canada's Arctic Journal. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
  6. 1 2 George, Jane (February 27, 2004). "Isaac CD reaches wide audiences". Nunatsiaq News. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
  7. ↑ "Taima". Asuilaak Living Dictionary. Archived from the original on January 28, 2013. Retrieved May 15, 2010.
  8. ↑ Patch, Nick (March 28, 2013). "Quebec singer Elisapie tries to laugh off being an ex-Juno nominee". Montreal Gazette. The Canadian Press. Archived from the original on March 29, 2013. Retrieved March 28, 2013.
  9. 1 2 "2019 JUNO Award Nominees". Juno Awards. Archived from the original on February 3, 2019. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
  10. ↑ "Dominique Fils-Aimé, Les Louanges et Elisapie nommés sur la courte liste du prix Polaris". Voir, July 16, 2019.
  11. ↑ "Elisapie: A Communication | Farah Joan". Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved February 26, 2012.
  12. ↑ Elsa Keslassy, "Canadian Producers C.S. Roy, Stéphanie Morissette Unveil Horror-AR Experience ‘V F C’". Variety, July 14, 2021.
  13. ↑ "If the Weather Permits". Collection. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved January 3, 2012.
  14. ↑ "NFB AND INUIT PARTNERS LAUNCH UNIKKAUSIVUT: SHARING OUR STORIES" (PDF). Press release. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved January 2, 2012.
  15. ↑ "La chanteuse Elisapie Isaac attend la visite de la cigogne" [Singer Elisapie Isaac Anticipating Stork Visit]. envedette.ca (in French). February 14, 2018. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
  16. ↑ "Le Félix de Florent Vollant : une fierté partagée". Ici Radio-Canada Côte-Nord, October 28, 2019.
  17. ↑ Cédric Bélanger, "Gala de l'ADISQ: l'année des Cowboys Fringants". Le Journal de Québec, November 1, 2020.
  18. ↑ "BLIKTV sort la bande musicale de la série télé Eaux Turbulentes" [BLIKTV Releases Music from TV Series Eaux Turbulentes]. kkbox.com (in French). April 16, 2020. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
  19. ↑ "If the Weather Permits". nfb.ca. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
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