An Inuk, Aglukark was born around Churchill, Manitoba and raised in Arviat, Northwest Territories (now inside Nunavut). Fallowing graduating highschool, she worked inside Ottawa, Ontario as a linguist with the Department of Indian & Northern Affairs, and then returned to the Northwest Territories to work as an executive assistant with the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada.

When working by owning the Inuit Tapirisat, she began to perform as a singer, & quickly became a popular performing artist around Inuit communities. She presently attracted a attention of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, who involved her within the compilation of Arctic performing artist. Within 1992, she released an independent album, Arctic Rose. the below month, she signed to a major record label, releasing an album of Christmas music that season.

This Toddler, freed around 1995, became her breakthrough album. A number one only from either that album, "O Siem", attend foremost on a American popular stock and index charts that season, making Aglukark the first Inuk performing artist to have a Top 40 hit. "Hina Na Ho (Celebration)" & "Breakin' Down" became hit singles too. A album was sooner or later qualified triple pt (300,000 copies sold) inside Canada.

Around 1999, Aglukark released Unsung Heroes, which spawned an additional popular hit by having "One Turn Deserves Another". This album besides involved "Turn of the Century", a song all about the creation of Nunavut. Inside 2003, she released Large Feeling.

Aglukark hwhen too acted as voice for many non-non-profit-making groups working by having native australian & Inuit youth, & has said that when she is lofty to exist as the model for aboriginal people in Canada, she ultimately understands herself as an creative person by owning the universal message of self-self-regard & nature and severity to which she hopes that humans of wholly ethnical backgrounds potty relate.

Aglukark was known as an officer of the Order of Canada in 2005.

She presently lives inside Oakville, Ontario.