Canadian Inuk-Mohawk singer and actress (born 1985)
Beatrice Deer (born 1985) is a Canadian Inuk-Mohawk singer and actress from Quaqtaq, Nunavik, Quebec.[1] She released her debut album, Just Bea, in 2005, and won a Canadian Aboriginal Music Award for Best Inuit/Cultural Album.[2] In 2010, she released her self-titled album, Beatrice Deer, and later that same year, she released a Christmas album, An Arctic Christmas.
Biography
Deer was born in Quaqtaq, to an Inuk mother and a Mohawk father from Kahnawake.[1][3] She is the cousin of Jaaji of the band Twin Flames.[4]
Beatrice Deer performs throughout the north with her band.
Awards
Best Inuit/Cultural Album at the Canadian Aboriginal Music Award[2]
2021: laureate at the Canadian Indigenous Music Awards.[5]
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