(pronounced “Pilk-Silk”)
With a style perpetually galvanized by darkness and haunting northern beauty, sisters, Tiffany Ayalik and Inuksuk Mackay, come together to create Inuit style throat singing duo, PIQSIQ. Performing ancient traditional songs and eerie new compositions, they leave their listeners enthralled with the infinity of possible answers to the question “what is the meaning of life.”
With roots in Nunavut, the two grew up in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. After years of forging hard won skill, they developed their own form blended with haunting melodies and otherworldly sounds. Approaching adulthood, they realized throat singing was not only a musical expression, but a radical, political act of cultural revitalization.
Recently, PIQSIQ has released the soundtrack they composed for the full length animated feature for the Leo Award Nominated, Sunburnt Unicorn, as well as a Juno Nominated studio album, Legends, where each track is inspired by a creature encounter from Inuit Mythology. They also composed the score for Zacharias Kunuk’s latest film and winner of TIFF’s Best Canadian Feature, Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband) and collaborated with National Geographic on a speaker series featuring the first ever Indigenous speaker. Fans can catch their music in the new hit show North of North, now featured on Netflix. PIQSIQ also composed vocals for the hit Apple TV show, Last Frontier. PIQSIQ completed a 2025 tour through Europe, Australia and Japan where they continue to create dynamic audience experiences that change with every show. Winners of 2 Canadian Folk Music awards, Best Vocal Group and Best Indigenous Songwriters, they continue to tour Canada and beyond.