TORONTO — Sometimes Andrew Morrison felt as if his Nunavut-based rock band the Jerry Cans was suffocated by the expectations put upon them.
Twice nominated at the Juno Awards, including for breakthrough group of the year, the Northern Canadian act was a rarity in the homegrown music scene – a group of white and Inuk musicians performing in a harmony of throat singing and folk elements.
"CBC, marketing people, radio. Everyone was like, 'What about English?' And we were like, 'No that's not what this thing is about,'" he said, adding that he believes some progress has been made since those experiences. She was also crucial to Morrison's learning of Inuktitut, which he says he studied in university and wrote songs in to understand better. When the two began dating, he immersed himself in the language under the orders of her late father.
When Ungalaq's band rose to fame in the 1980s, he was afforded an unparalleled perspective on the music scene in the North and its relationship with the rest of the country.
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