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Arcade Fire, Drake, Owen Pallett were also finalists
The Canadian Press Posted: Sep 22, 2014 11:06 PM ET Last Updated: Sep 22, 2014 11:11 PM ET
Nunavut-raised Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq has won the $30,000 Polaris Music Prize.
The two-time Juno Award nominee won for her album Animism.
The Polaris is given to the best Canadian album of the previous year, as determined by a jury of journalists and broadcasters.
Most of the nominees performed at the gala event at the Carlu in Toronto, including Vancouver-based rapper Shad, past winner Owen Pallett and Toronto multi-instrumentalist Basia Bulat.
Neither Arcade Fire nor Montreal experimental collective Yamantaka // Sonic Titan took the stage, and Drake was simultaneously booked to perform with Lil Wayne at the Hollywood Bowl.
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