Nunavik’s Elisapie nominated for 2 Junos

Nunavik singer Elisapie thanked her fans after her 2023 album was nominated for two Juno Awards.

“Nakurmiik for this honour,” she wrote on Instagram Tuesday after the full list of nominations for the annual Canadian music awards was unveiled.

Elisapie’s album, titled Inuktitut, was one of five to be nominated for Contemporary Indigenous Artist or Group of the Year.

The Salluit-born singer, whose full name is Elisapie Isaac, is known professionally by just her first name.

Her album features Inuktitut covers of famous songs by Blondie, Fleetwood Mac and Metallica.

“What was to be a small project for the north, my family and friends became this soul-searching journey and eventually a very personal album,” she wrote in an Instagram post after her nomination was announced.

Inuktitut was also nominated for Album Artwork of the Year.

Art director Carolyne De Bellefeuille, photographer Leeor Wild and designers and illustrators Jessica Ledoux, Mali Savaria-Ille and Veronique Lafortune are also listed in that nomination.

This is not Elisapie’s first time being nominated for a Juno Award.

In 2005, her album Taima won for Aboriginal Recording of the Year. And in 2019, she was nominated for Indigenous Music Album of the Year.

The Juno Awards will be presented March 24 in Halifax.