Sugluk (variously styled Sugluc, SUGLUC, or the Sugluk Group) were a Canadian rock band based in northern

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. Led by singer George Kakayuk and guitarist Tayara Papigatuk, the group toured extensively through the 1970s and 1980s, and recorded two singles with the

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's Northern Service in 1975. The band wrote songs in both English and

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. They were formed in

Salluit, Quebec Salluit ( iu, ᓴᓪᓗᐃᑦ, "the thin ones") is the second northernmost Inuit community in Quebec, Canada, located on Sugluk Inlet close to the Hudson Strait and was formerly known as Sugluk. Its population was 1,483 in the Canada 2016 Census ...

(formerly known as Sugluk) in the early 1970s, and reunited in 2013. Salluit-born pop singer

Elisapie Isaac Elisapie Isaac (also known simply as Elisapie; syllabics: ) is a Canadian Inuk musician, broadcaster, documentary filmmaker, and activist. She spent her childhood in Salluit, Nunavik, Quebec, and moved to Montreal in 1999 to pursue communicat ...

, who is Kakayuk's niece, performed with the band in her youth.

Discography

The only recordings of the group are two 45 RPM singles recorded by the CBC's Northern Service in 1975. * "Attama Onnikansigit" (My Father's Story) b/w "Sunamiq Pigumavit" (What Do You Want?)/ "Ajuinarasuasuga" (I Tried Hard), 7", CBC Northern Service, 1975 * "Fall Away/ I Didn't Know" b/w "Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy" 7", CBC Northern Service, 1975 The tracks "Fall Away", "I Didn't Know", and "Ajuinarasuasuga" appear on the 2014 compilation album '' Native North America, Vol. 1''.

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Photograph of Sugluk
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