Lhasa de Sela

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Lhasa de Sela in Stuttgart, July 2005
Lhasa de Sela in Stuttgart, July 2005
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
The Living Road
  CH 63 11/23/2003 (4 weeks)
Lhasa
  CH 36 05/03/2009 (10 weeks)

Lhasa de Sela (born September 27, 1972 in Big Indian in the Catskills , New York , USA ; † January 1, 2010 in Montreal ) was an American- Mexican singer .

life and career

Her father is from Mexico and her mother is American. As a child, she toured the United States and Mexico on a bus with her parents and three sisters for seven years. This nomadic time without television and school attendance, but with lots of books and music, shaped her musically and in her thinking. Learning and creativity were the determining influences. In addition to music, she also dealt with other art forms, e.g. B. Painting.

She had her first appearances as a singer when she was thirteen in a Greek café in San Francisco . Later she was often in Montreal , where her sisters participate in the Cirque du Soleil . There she met Yves Desrosiers in 1991 , the producer and arranger of her first record La Llorona . The eleven pieces were characterized by melancholy beauty, intense and tense vocals and sparing instrumentation. The texts of their first publication are all in Spanish , as they believe that this language allows for greater emotionality. In addition to her own pieces, she sang songs by other artists, such as Víctor Jaras and Violeta Parras . Although she did not serve any musical genre directly, she had fans from various fields, jazz , world music , chanson , alternative rock and Argentine tango . From time to time she has worked with other artists in this or related genre, such as As with Bratsch , Tindersticks , Patrick Watson and Arthur H . She is often compared to Lila Downs for both her biography and her singing style .

Between the times when she produced her rare records or went on tour, she devoted herself to other projects. She lived in France for a few years, where she and her sisters set up a new kind of circus: Pocheros . In Marseille she wrote a large part of her second record, The Living Road , on which, in contrast to the first, she sings in several languages, in English , French and Spanish.

She lived in Montréal until her death. Her last record, completely in English, was recorded here. It was released in Canada and Europe in April 2009.

Lhasa de Sela died on January 1, 2010 of breast cancer .

In May 2014, the former Parc Clark in Montreal was officially renamed Parc Lhasa-De Sela . It is in the Mile End district, where Lhasa de Sela lived.

Discography

  • 1997 - La Llorona
  • 2003 - The Living Road
  • 2009 - Lhasa
  • 2017 - Lhasa Live in Reykjavik (recordings from the Reykjavik Arts Festival on May 23 and 24, 2009)

swell

  1. ↑ Lhasa in the Swiss hit parade
  2. ↑ Lhasa de Sela park officially unveiled in Mile End , in: CBC News, May 16, 2014. online.

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personal data
SURNAME Sela, Lhasa de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican-American singer
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Big Indian in the Catskills , New York , USA
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 2010
Place of death Montreal