Sirima

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Sirima , actually Sirima LarUFa (born February 14, 1964 in Isleworth , Great Britain ; died December 7, 1989 in Paris ) was a British singer.

Live and act

Sirima was the child of a French mother and a Ceylonese father. She spent her childhood in Sri Lanka , at the age of eight she moved back to the UK with her mother after her parents separated.

She grew up in an environment dominated by music. In her childhood she listened to the popular Ceylonese music baila , Buddhist percussion, and Catholic hymns sung in English. Her father played the guitar and an uncle played the flute. When she arrived in England, she began to make music on various instruments herself, playing folk music with her sisters .

At the age of eighteen, Sirima moved to France and took a job as an au pair there. From 1982 to 1987 she performed as a street musician with an electric guitar in the Paris Métro . She could often be found in the underground Châtelet - Les Halles train station , where she sang songs by the Beatles , Joan Baez and others.

At the end of 1986 the French singer Jean-Jacques Goldman was looking for a duet partner to record his finished song Là-bas . His saxophonist Philippe de Lacroix-Herpin brought him a cassette from his friend Philippe Delettrez, who played with Sirima. Goldman, who had heard many singers in this regard, went to Sirima, whose voice he liked, at the Barbès - Rochechouart metro station . He invited her to the studio for a rehearsal , where he found that she was the singer he was looking for.

Là-bas appeared on Goldman's album Entre gris clair et gris foncé and was released as a single . The song stayed at number 2 on the French charts for five weeks in 1988 .

As a result, Sirima recorded her own album, A part of me, sung in English . It was created in the Davout studio in Paris and was published on November 17, 1989. Sirima wrote the music and lyrics himself, Philippe Delettrez only contributed the music for No reason no rhyme , which was released as a single . In the song I need to know , Jean-Jacques Goldman sang as her duet partner. Sirima also designed the cover and wrote the scripts for the video clips .

Due to tragic circumstances, A part of me should remain their only album. In the song His way of loving me , she described the eventful relationship ("I never dreamed love could be like war") with her partner Kahatra Sasorith, the father of her son Kym, who was probably born in 1986. The little successful musician, who tends to break out of violence, is listed as the second guitarist on Sirima's album. On December 7, 1989, less than three weeks after the album was released, he fatally injured Sirima with a kitchen knife in the heart, presumably out of jealousy.

Remarks

  1. ↑ She transported the associated amplifier in a shopping cart
  2. ↑ According to Jean-Jacques Goldman, Kahatra Sasorith had "just had a baby" at the end of 1986

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sirima et Jean-Jacques Goldman - Là-bas (Chanson) at lescharts.com, accessed on August 3, 2015
  2. ↑ Sirima - No Reason No Rhyme at discogs.com, accessed August 6, 2015
  3. ↑ Sirima on the homepage of Jean-Jacques Goldman, accessed on August 4, 2015
  4. ↑ Sirima - ... A Part Of Me at discogs.com, accessed August 4, 2015
  5. ^ Court judgment (French) at legifrance.gouv.fr, accessed on August 4, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Sirima
ALTERNATIVE NAMES LarUFa, Sirima (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British singer
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Isleworth , UK
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1989
Place of death Paris