Tudjaat was founded in 1994 after producer Randall Prescott heard Allakariallak perform as part of a backup chorus with
Susan Aglukark's third CD. When he learned that Atagotaaluk, her cousin, was also a throat singer, he arranged to have the pair brought together with several backup musicians for a recording session which combined their traditional singing with modern guitar, keyboard, bass and drum music. The result was a six-track CD titled
Tudjaat.
Tudjaat features "Kajusita (When My Ship Comes In)", a song written by Allakariallak, Jon Park-Wheeler, and Randall Prescott. The song, which describes the forced
exile of a group of Inuit to the High Arctic in the last century, is a tribute to those who suffered and died as a consequence of a government decision. "Kajusita" won the CD's its producers the 1997 American Indian Film Institute Awards Best Song award, was included on a
United Nations compilation CD entitled
Here and Now, A celebration of Canadian Music, The Music of The First Peoples and Folk Music, and was made into a music video. Tudjaat was nominated for a Juno Award for Best Music of Aboriginal Canada in 1997, but did not win. After the short-lived career of Tudjaat, Allakariallak worked for the
CBC Northern Service and then in 2005 became a news host on the
Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. ==References==