Asha Puthli

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Asha Puthli (2009)

Asha Puthli (born February 4, 1945 in Bombay ) is an Indian singer and actress. In her 40 year career she has recorded records in the fields of jazz , disco , soul and pop .

Career

Asha Puthli began her musical career in the 1960s. So in 1967 an EP with the group The Surfers was created in Singapore, which contains cover versions of four international hits, Angel In The Morning , Sound Of Silence , Sunny and Fever . Puthli later moved to New York and expanded her career in the music business here. In 1971 the free jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman booked the singer for his album Science Fiction . Puthli's vocals can be heard on the songs What Reason Could I Give and All My Life . It was the first time Coleman ever worked with vocals.

A year later, Puthli played a permissive role in James Ivory's film Savages , which was banned in India. In 1973 she released her debut album Asha Puthli , which includes an unusual cover version of George Harrison's I Dig Love and a version of JJ Cales Right Down Here . The Fantastischen Vier took over the piece in 1992 as a sample for their first hit Die da . Asha Puthli also contains the singer's first original composition on a record: Truth . Puthli's extravagant mixture of soul, jazz, funk as well as psychedelic and Indian elements caused a sensation, but could not hold its own commercially. The following LP She Loves to Heart the Music did not bring the hoped-for breakthrough either.

From the mid-1970s, Puthli recorded numerous disco-dominated records in Germany, which were particularly successful in Italy. The title song of their 1976 LP The Devil Is Loose made it to number 10 on the M&D charts there . During these years, she temporarily gave up her last name. The New Wave-inspired LP I'm Gonna Kill It Tonight (1980) was only released as Asha .

In 1979 Puthli returned to the film business for Bruno Corbucci's Squadra antigangsters . She not only played one of the leading roles, but also contributed the two songs The Whip and The Sound of Money . In the 1980s, the singer withdrew from the music business for a while. In the decades that followed, numerous hip-hop artists took samples from Puthli's old recordings for their own songs, including Notorious BIG , Diddy , Jay-Z , The Neptunes and Jermaine Dupri . Puthli himself has been performing again for several years and in 2008 released a new album called Lost . The song Love Unconditional for the film Finding Bliss followed a year later .

Private

Puthli was married to Marc Goldschmidt. Their son Jannu Alain Goldschmidt was born in New York in 1975. He tried his hand at filming for a few years, but most recently worked as an editor for television.

Discography

Albums

  • 1973: Asha Puthli
  • 1974: She Loves to Hear the Music
  • 1976: The Devil Is Loose
  • 1978: Asha (also known as Asha L'indiana , 1979)
  • 1979: 1001 Nights of Love
  • 1980: I'm Gonna Kill it Tonight
  • 1982: Only the Headaches Remain
  • 1998: Asha: The New Beat of Nostalgia
  • 2008: Lost

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birthday on partyflock.nl
  2. ↑ Place of birth on the offline homepage ( Memento from February 21, 2016 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ Information about a compilation with recordings from Singapore
  4. ↑ Photo of Sunny , Info + Cover on YouTube
  5. ^ LP credits, Discogs.com
  6. ^ Photo + caption, Billboard, December 1971
  7. ↑ Asha Puthli, an Indian Singer Who Embraces Countless Cultures , New York Times, August 2006
  8. ↑ M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi , accessed on March 8, 2016 (Italian, paid subscription access).
  9. ^ Filmography, IMDB
  10. ↑ Soundtrack Info, IMDB
  11. ↑ "The Devil is loose: Asha Puthli stages a come back !!", Sunil Kothari for narthaki.com, November 8, 2008
  12. ↑ Jannu Goldschmidt in the IMDB
personal data
SURNAME Puthli, Asha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goldschmidt, Asha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian singer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Bombay