Riit (ᕇᑦ) is the stage name of Rita Claire Mike-Murphy, a Canadian Inuk musician and television personality from Pangnirtung, Nunavut who is most noted as the host of APTN's children's series Anaana's Tent.^[1]

As Riit, she released her self-titled debut EP, a collaboration with The Jerry Cans and producer Michael Phillip Wojewoda, in 2017 on Aakuluk Music.^[2] In 2019 she released the single "Qaumajuapik",^[3] and performed the song live on CBC Radio One's Q in May.^[4] Her album Ataataga, produced by Graham Walsh, was released in October 2019 on Six Shooter Records.^[5] The album was a Juno Award nominee for Indigenous Music Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2020,^[6] and was a longlisted nominee for the 2020 Polaris Music Prize.^[7] Her song "#uvangattauq" was shortlisted for the 2020 SOCAN Songwriting Prize^[8] and was a collaboration with South African-Canadian singer Zaki Ibrahim, who provides the English vocals on the song.^[9]

She won the Emerging Talent Award from the Youth Media Alliance in 2019 for her work on Anaana's Tent.^[1]

In 2020 she appeared as a duet vocalist on Terry Uyarak's single "Anuri".^[10]

References

External links

• Rita Claire Mike-Murphy at IMDb
• Rita Claire Mike-Murphy on the Inuit Art Quarterly Profiles
• Riit on Qaggiavuut