One wonders what she could have done. At her age she could have had a long career as a mainstream artist in pop music or could have done much for Inuit culture. Nobody knows what we are missing. Such is the tragedy of death of young, talented people with crossover abilities.
Kelly Fraser (August 8, 1993 – December 24, 2019[1]) was a Canadian Inuk pop singer and songwriter, whose second album, Sedna, received a Juno Award nomination for Indigenous Music Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2018.
Born in Igloolik she moved with her family at a young age to Sanikiluaq, Nunavut,[1] in Canada, she was educated at Nunavut Sivuniksavut in Ottawa before completing an indigenous studies program at Nicola Valley Institute of Technology in British Columbia.[3] She first attracted widespread attention in 2013 with a series of Inuktitut-language covers of pop songs, most notably Rihanna's "Diamonds", on YouTube.[4]
She released her debut album, Isuma, in 2014.[4] Her songs included Inuktitut and English language, and musically, combined contemporary pop with traditional Inuit sounds.[4] Her producer reported that she was working on another album, to be called Decolonize, when she died.[4][5]
She died at her home in Winnipeg, Manitoba on December 24, 2019 by suicide. According to her family she had suffered through "...childhood traumas, racism and persistent cyberbullying."
Sedna[edit]
Sedna was released on February 25, 2017, by Nunavut's Hitmakerz record label.[6][3] The title of the album, known as ᓄᓕᐊᔪᒃ (Nuliaju) in Inuktitut, refers to the story of Sedna, the Inuit goddess of the sea, which Fraser decided to modernize in this album.[5] She said, "The goal of the album is to help heal those suffering from the effects of colonization, including the damaging effects of residential school and forced relocation. There is a great need for Inuit artists to directly speak to those affected from the past."[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Fraser
Kelly Fraser (August 8, 1993 – December 24, 2019[1]) was a Canadian Inuk pop singer and songwriter, whose second album, Sedna, received a Juno Award nomination for Indigenous Music Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2018.
Born in Igloolik she moved with her family at a young age to Sanikiluaq, Nunavut,[1] in Canada, she was educated at Nunavut Sivuniksavut in Ottawa before completing an indigenous studies program at Nicola Valley Institute of Technology in British Columbia.[3] She first attracted widespread attention in 2013 with a series of Inuktitut-language covers of pop songs, most notably Rihanna's "Diamonds", on YouTube.[4]
She released her debut album, Isuma, in 2014.[4] Her songs included Inuktitut and English language, and musically, combined contemporary pop with traditional Inuit sounds.[4] Her producer reported that she was working on another album, to be called Decolonize, when she died.[4][5]
She died at her home in Winnipeg, Manitoba on December 24, 2019 by suicide. According to her family she had suffered through "...childhood traumas, racism and persistent cyberbullying."
Sedna[edit]
Sedna was released on February 25, 2017, by Nunavut's Hitmakerz record label.[6][3] The title of the album, known as ᓄᓕᐊᔪᒃ (Nuliaju) in Inuktitut, refers to the story of Sedna, the Inuit goddess of the sea, which Fraser decided to modernize in this album.[5] She said, "The goal of the album is to help heal those suffering from the effects of colonization, including the damaging effects of residential school and forced relocation. There is a great need for Inuit artists to directly speak to those affected from the past."[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Fraser
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.