Artist: Lhasa: mp3 download Genre(s): Ethnic Discography: The living Road Year: 2003 Tracks: 12 Maybe it was Lhasa's unconventional upbringing that has tending her such a singular visual modality, or possibly it was perpetually inside her. Whatever the understanding, she stands as one of the to the highest degree idiosyncratic Mexican-American performers, in full cognizant of the tradition, just putt her own spin on it. Lhasa's mother, Alexandra Karam, was an actress and lensman, her begetter, Alejandro Sela, a Mexican professor commandment in upstate New York -- Lhasa de Sela was born in the lilliputian colony of Big Indian. The self-aggrandizing crime syndicate (Lhasa apso has threesome sisters, leash half-sisters, and trinity half-brothers) was fairly vagabondage and their travels took them between the U.S. and Mexico, traveling and living in a born-again school busbar. It was an arty life of euphony, books, and letters, merely without the insidious influence of tv, prohibited by her parents. Instead, the family was throw up on its possess resources for amusement and that included nightly tattle, where Lhasa highly-developed her voice. The sept exhausted a total of octet long time south of the margin, where Lhasa grew into the local culture, before in the end settling (outside the U.S. again) in Montreal, Canada, in 1992, at the age of 20. She'd visited the place the late year and met Yves Desrosiers, a young instrumentalist with whom her initial play had proved so fruitful that they distinct to collaborate on a full-time footing. The pair played topically, adding bassist Mario Légaré, and then toured nationally, garnering rave reviews from coast to coast, before beginning influence on Lhasa's debut, La Llorana. A raid to the U.S. in 1997 to trip and perform with Lilith Fair won a number of fans, wHO were surprised by the strange, richly fleshly music and Lhasa's smoky jazz diction. The venture was perennial in 1998 to coincide with the American release of her record album, which had already been uncommitted for a year in Canada. After touring behind the album, Lhasa affected to France, to run with her sisters, wHO perform with circuses on that point. |