[2] The title, a homage to her mother, was directed at the Canadian government's dark history of identifying Inuit by disc numbers instead of their names.

[3] Though she had already garnered national and international attention, it was when she opened for The White Stripes at their concert in her hometown of Iqaluit[3] on June 27, 2007, that the media began to truly take notice.

[5] As of 2014, cities that have named Angel Streets as part of the campaign included Iqaluit, St. John's, Edmonton, Regina, Fredericton, Yellowknife and Kamloops.

She has since written the score for renowned filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk's film Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change, as well as music for several television shows.

Filmmaker Shane Belcourt also cited Idlout, a close friend of his sister Christi, as an influence on the themes of his 2007 film Tkaronto.