Inuit Throat Singing | BuzzFeed Video

Karin and Kathy Kettler, the Canadian throat-singing sisters who together are known as Nukariik, carry on the Inuit throat singing tradition of the elders from their mothers' village in Kangiqsualujjuaq, Quebec, Canada The practice started as a way for women to pass the time while men were out hunting. It's a friendly competition in which two women face each other and layer the same beat a second apart. It's also a way to sooth babies. Most women wore the babies on their backs in large hoods, al

This mother and daughter are helping bring back Inuit throat singing, a once-banned art form that's earned them over two million followers on TikTok. | AJ

T. Patrick Carrabré’s Inuit Games fuses Indigenous and orchestral music. Listen in as performer Inukshuk Aksalnik introduces the unique sounds of Inuit throat singing and helps us discover the culture and history behind it--all as a part of our Canada Mosaic/Canada 150 project: http://ow.ly/S28L3087KsQ | Toronto Symphony Orchestra