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![]() Childhood and Musical Influences
Lhasa de Sela was born on 27 September 1972, in Big Indian, a hamlet in the Town of Shandaken, in Ulster County, in the Catskill Mountains, in New York, USA. Her mother, Alexandra Karam, is an American photographer and actor. (Lhasa is named after the capital of Tibet, because when she was born, her mother had been deeply immersed in reading The Tibetan Book of the Dead.) Lhasa’s father, Alejandro Sela, is a Mexican-born author and teacher of Spanish language and literature. Neither of Lhasa’s parents has any brothers or sisters; both of them come from families with multiple backgrounds, including Lebanese, Polish and Panamanian.
From the time she was two months old, Lhasa and her three sisters (Sky, Ayin and Miriam) travelled back and forth across the United States and Mexico with their parents on the family bus. For seven years, their father did odd jobs while their mother home-schooled her daughters and stimulated their imaginations. The family spent some of this time living in a Catholic religious community in Mexico, where Lhasa attended church every day and received the Catholic sacraments.
Music was a constant thread in the life of this small nomadic clan. Alejandro loved listening to American and Mexican standards, while Alexandra preferred Arab, Latin, Gypsy and Japanese music. Lhasa was constantly humming songs and found her musical influences in a variety of styles and rhythms. Chavela Vargas, a famous singer of Mexican rancheras (born in Costa Rica but a naturalized citizen of Mexico) was a great inspiration for Lhasa. Other artists who shaped her musical world over the years included Tom Waits, Vladimir Vissotski, Randy Newman, Jacques Brel, Anouar Brahem, Sam Cooke, Al Green, Amália Rodrigues, Cuco Chavez, Leonard Cohen, Björk and Radiohead. Lhasa described her music as “a way of breaking the solitude, of letting you show yourself and other people that we are all together and all living the same experience.”
Adolescence and Decisive Encounters
Lhasa learned early on to separate herself from her personal image. When she was 12, while working on a school project about the environment, she spent time at a summer camp near San Francisco, where there were no mirrors anywhere. When she came home, she was shocked at her own vagabond appearance. But she realized that despite everything, she felt tremendously beautiful inside. Years later, in an interview with the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir, she referred to this experience and compared music with the sensation that she had felt at that time: “There are ways of creating and recording music that take you more inside yourself. If you avoid mirrors, you no longer notice the tiny flaws at the corners of your eyes. Instead you can linger on the general beauty of things, on the strength of the whole and on what you feel inside.”
The call of music was very strong. At age 13, Lhasa began singing jazz standards and Billie Holiday songs at a Greek café in San Francisco. With a teacher’s help, she learned the fundamentals of jazz singing, as well as to “respect the text”, and developed a revelatory presence as a singer.
At age 18, Lhasa enrolled at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she studied modern languages and ancient Greek, but eventually she dropped out. In 1991, she moved to Montreal, where her sisters were studying acrobatics and circus arts. There she worked as a server at the Maison de la Culture Mondiale and at the pub L’Barouf. But bit by bit, she began singing in bars, where her repertoire often included bossa nova (a type of Brazilian dance music) and traditional Mexican songs. She also sang many songs by the group Bratsch, whom she had discovered during her first summer in Montreal and admired tremendously, and with whom she got the chance to play years later in Paris, on the stage of the Bataclan.
But it was thanks to Lhasa’s encounter with Montreal multi-instrumentalist, lyricist and composer Yves Desrosiers that her career as a singer really began. She met him through a mutual friend at a performance by Canadian jazz singer/songwriter Térez Montcalm. At the time, Lhasa did not speak much French, and Desrosiers was already well established on the Montreal music scene, playing with famous Quebec singer/songwriter Jean Leloup as a member of his group, La Sale Affaire. One year later, Lhasa met Desrosiers again, by chance, while sitting at a sidewalk café, and told him about her desire to sing professionally. They exchanged contact information, and an artistic partnership was born.
With a little help from friends such as drummer and percussionist François Lalonde, bassist Mario Légaré, guitarist Rick Haworth and accordionist Didier Dumoutier, Lhasa and Desrosiers worked on their project for about five years before landing a recording contract. During this time, they performed their music at various bars in Montreal’s Plateau district.
La Llorona (1997)
Written in the dead of winter, Lhasa’s first album, LaLlorona (meaning, “she who cries”) refers to a female character in Aztec legend who bewitched men with her mournful songs, enticing them to join her on a riverbank where her kisses turned them into stone. The album was released on 4 February 1997, containing songs in English (Lhasa’s mother tongue) as well as Spanish and French, and became known mainly by word of mouth. Despite this, La Llorona became a phenomenal success. It went gold in Canada in February 1998, with 50,000 copies sold, and platinum in 2004. It represented Quebec in the “Discoveries” series at the Printemps de Bourges music festival in France. La Llonora also earned Lhasa the Félix Award for Best Quebec Artist ― World Music in 1997 and a Juno Award for Best Global Album of the Year in 1998. Lhasa illustrated the jacket for this album herself. Its finely written songs touch on themes of love, abandonment and escape, with melodies evoking the sounds of Greek, Peruvian, klezmer, Gypsy and even country music.
The Living Road (2003)
In the aftermath of her first album’s unexpected triumph, Lhasa left Montreal to live in France for three years, two of them in Marseille. She sang the song “La marée haute “ in La Maison Autre, a show produced by the travelling circus troupe Los Pocheros, in which her three sisters performed as an acrobat, a trapeze artist and a tightrope walker, respectively. Lhasa enjoyed working closely with other artists, but felt less free than when she sang her own songs at her own concerts.
Lhasa began recording her second album, The Living Road, in Paris with veteran musicians Vincent Ségal, Cyril Atef and Sébastien Martel, but soon felt pressured by the pace at which they worked. Listening to her gut, she returned to Montreal to continue work on The Living Road with two producers whom she knew well, François Lalonde and Jean Massicotte. The working and recording sessions went on for seven months, and The Living Road was released on 21 October 2003. The Times of London ranked The Living Road third among the best world-music albums of the decade. The album went gold in Canada and in France and led to Lhasa’s receiving the Best World Music Artist of the Americas award from the BBC in 2005.
Lhasa (2009)
Fast video downloader free download for android. After a European and North American tour, began composing the songs for her new album, entitled simply Lhasa. Having lost her voice several times in the past, she took a new vocal turn, deciding to sing in a higher range that was more comfortable for her. She also recruited a new corps of musicians to work on the album with her. They included harpist Sarah Pagé, bassist Miles Perkin, drummer Andrew Barr and guitarists Joe Grass and Freddy Koella. Singer Patrick Watson helped her to compose the songs, all of them in English. The album was recorded at the analog-based Studio Hotel2tango in Montreal. Lhasa wanted this work to be a palpable exchange of subtle sonorities among musicians, which is why she chose to record it on analog tape at Studio Hotel2tango, all at once and with almost no tweaking.
Audi a4 driving challenge free download. The album was released in Montreal on 20 April 2009. Lhasa then began a tour, but had to cancel her concerts in Iceland and Paris in June, because she was seriously ill. She died of breast cancer several months later, on 1 January 2010, in her apartment in Montreal.
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A park where Lhasa often walked to seek inspiration, not far from her studio in Montreal’s Mile End neighbourhood, was named after her in 2014. In October 2016, she received the Polaris Heritage Award posthumously for her premier album, La Llonora. In December 2017, a show entitled “La route chante” commemorated the 20th anniversary of the release of this legendary album. Lhasa’s final album, Live in Reykjavik, recorded at a concert in May 2009, was released in November 2017.
Final cut pro download free mac. A tri-lingual singer, whose startlingly original music earned her a subtanstial cult following, and comparisons with the likes of Tom Waits, Edith Piaf, and Nick Cave, Lhasa de Sela was a true one-off. Blessed with striking looks, a husky contralto and an intense, theatrical stage presence, she mesmerised audiences with her dream-like, tangentially biographical songs.
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These drew on sources as diverse as Mexican ranchera, French chanson and Gypsy folk as well as alt. rock, country, gospel and blues, and reflected her bohemian, peripatetic upbringing. However, she was ambivalent about – and intimidated by – the sudden fame they brought her. In a brief but colourful career, she released only three albums, with combined sales of over one million, a large proportion of them in the Francophone world of Canada and France, where she spent several formative years. Her songs were used in the television series The Sopranos, as well as the Madonna documentary I Am Because We Are and John Sayles' Casa De Los Babys (2003).
She met with more limited success in the UK, where she debuted at London's Jazz Café in April 2004 as part of the annual La Linea festival of Latin Music. The following year, she won the Americas category in the BBC Radio 3 Awards For World Music. She also collaborated with the similarly cultish British pop noir group Tindersticks, recording 'Sometimes It Hurts' for their album Waiting For The Moon (2003) and later duetting with their lead singer Stuart Staples on 'That Leaving Feeling,' which appeared on his 2006 album Leaving Songs.
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Lhasa was one of 10 children, and was brought up in an unconventional way that predisposed her to an artistic life. Her father Alejandro was a Mexican writer and teacher, and her mother Alexandra an American photographer, of partly Lebanese descent. Both were also amateur musicians; he sang and played flute, and she sang and played harp, and later, the gujong, a Chinese zither. They both encouraged her to sing from an early age, and exposed her to an eclectic array of roots music, ranging from the Egyptian diva Oum Khalsoum and the Portuguese fado queen Amália Rodrigues to militant Latin American nueva canción.
In a 2005 interview with Roots magazine, Lhasa – often referred to by her first name – revealed that another unlikely early influence was Donovan's For Little Ones album, which she first heard as a five-year-old:
'It made me want to write poems and walk down dusty roads and fall in love and be wise and know mysteries, speak to animals,' she said. 'I still remember the images I had in my mind when I listened to his songs.'
By this time, the family were on the road, living a nomadic hippie lifestyle that took them back and forth across the United States and Mexico for around seven years. The children were home-schooled, without TV, but with plenty of books that fuelled their imaginations. Best winrar app for mac. When she was 11, after her parents separated, Lhasa then lived with her mother in San Francisco, where she was given lessons by a jazz singer. She took her first steps on a public stage at 13, singing Billie Holliday songs and Mexican folklore in a Greek café.
She continued singing solo like this until they moved to Montreal five years later, where she met the rock guitarist Yves Desroisier, with whom she formed a duo. Over the next eight years, they gradually accumulated collaborators, who would eventually make up the group that recorded La Llorona, Lhasa's 1997 debut. Sung entirely in Spanish, it became a word-of-mouth hit, winning a Felix prize for 'Artiste québécois – musique de monde' and then a Canadian Juno award for Best Global Artist the following year.
Lhasa's success saw her embark on gruelling tours of Europe and North America (including an unhappy experience as part of the travelling Lilith Fair music festival) over the next two years. Feeling overwhelmed and unnerved by the burden of expectation, she bailed out in the summer of 1999, stepping off the treadmill of the music industry to fulfil a childhood dream of running away to join the circus. She did this by making a rendezvous with her three sisters in Bourgogne, France.
For the next year, they toured their own circus show around the country, after which Lhasa settled for the next two and a half years in Marseille. It was there that she worked on the material for her second album, The Living Road, which finally appeared in 2003, after she had moved back to Montreal. This time, Lhasa sang in Spanish, French and English and drew her own fantastical cover illustrations to enhance the music's dark, fairy-tale ambience. Css editor for mac free.
It would be another six years before the appearance of the follow-up album Lhasa, a more stripped-down and rather austere work, which found her switching entirely to English. It was released in April 2009, by which time she had begun her battle with breast cancer, the first public sign of which came when she was forced to postpone a European tour in the summer.
In August 2009, Lhasa's songs 'La Marée Haute' and 'Pa Llegar Tu Lado' were used in Sophie Barthes' feature film Cold Souls. Later that year, she was forced to cancel an international autumn tour, and plans for an album of covers of songs by her early nueva canció*inspirations Víctor Jara and Violeta Parra had to be abandoned.
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Lhasa de Sela, singer and songwriter: born Big Indian, New York 27 September 1972; died Montreal 1 January 2010.
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