2020-02-11
1 小时 2 分钟My guest today, Elissape, was born in the Arctic Circle and grew up in a small town called Saluit, 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 a mix of inuktitut, 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.
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 album, the Ballad of the Runaway Girl, it's kind of the musical tale of an ex patriot, Inouk.
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 works 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.
And NPR said Elizabeth synthesizes stories from her eventful life with hypnotic arrangements that channel seventies rock, indigenous folk music, and the low, moody rumble of barnstormers like Tom Waits.
I have to agree with all of this.
In this conversation, we trace and dive into her journey from the very earliest days, telling, deeply moving 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 in music, journey to Montreal and then around the world and what she's up to today.
So excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is a good life project.
You come from a part of the world that I'm so unfamiliar with, and I'm fascinated.
I want to know more.
So I guess you grew up and you were born in a small town.
Tell me if I'm pronouncing this right.
Salut.
Salut.