Biography
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Born
1996 (age 28)
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Born In
Pangnirtung, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada
Riit (ᕇᑦ) is the stage name of Rita Claire Mike-Murphy, a Canadian Inuk musician and television personality from Pangnirtung, Nunavut who is most noted as the host of APTN's children's series Anaana's Tent.
As Riit, she released her self-titled debut EP, a collaboration with The Jerry Cans and producer Michael Phillip Wojewoda, in 2017 on Aakuluk Music. Her album Ataataga, produced by Graham Walsh, was released in October 2019 on Six Shooter Records. The album was a Juno Award nominee for Indigenous Music Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2020, and was a longlisted nominee for the 2020 Polaris Music Prize.
In 2019 she won the Emerging Talent Award from the Youth Media Alliance for her work on Anaana's Tent.
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