Lucie Idlout

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Lucie Idlout (born Tatanniq Lucie d'Argencourt, 1972/1973) is a Canadian Inuk singer-songwriter and actress from Iqaluit, Nunavut. She is the daughter of Leah Idlout-Paulson and granddaughter of Joseph Idlout. After the release of several EPs, Idlout's first full-length album, E5-770, My Mother’s Name, hit the streets in 2004. The title, a homage to her mother, was directed at the Canadian government's dark history of identifying Inuit by disc numbers instead of their names. E5-770 was the disc number issued to her mother. The government policy was instituted in 1944 but ran from 1941 - 1978. Her song "Birthday", off of the same album, appeared in Dan Birman's Crime Spree, starring Gérard Depardieu and Harvey Keitel. Though she had already garnered national and international attention, it was when she opened for The White Stripes at their concert in her hometown of Iqaluit on June 27, 2007, that the media began to truly take notice. Her second album, Swagger, was released in February 2009...

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