Beatrice Deer (born 1985) is a Canadian Inuk singer born in Quaqtaq, Nunavik, Quebec in 1985. She released her debut album, Just Bea, in 2005, and won a Canadian Aboriginal Music Award for Best Inuit/Cultural Album. 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 is of Inuk descent and was born in Quaqtaq. She is the cousin of Jaaji of the band Twin Flames.

Beatrice Deer

Beatrice Deer performs throughout the north with her band.

Beatrice Deer

Awards

Best Inuit/Cultural Album at the Canadian Aboriginal Music Award

2021: laureate at the Canadian Indigenous Music Awards.

Beatrice Deer

She was a Felix Award nominee for Indigenous Artist of the Year at the 44th Félix Awards in 2022.

Discography

Just Bea (2005)

Beatrice Deer (2010)

Fox (2015)

My All To You (2018)

References

Living people

Inuit musicians

Canadian Inuit women

Musicians from Quebec

People from Nunavik

Inuit from Quebec

Canadian Folk Music Award winners

21st-century Canadian women singers

1985 births