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Lhasa de Sela
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Canada
- Active from
- 1972-09-27
- Active to
- 2010-01-01
Discography
- La Llorona1997
- The Living Road2003
- Lhasa2009
- Natura Tibetana2013
- First Recordings2024
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 194,806
- Total plays
- 3,346,525
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Lhasa de Sela (1972 - 2010), also known under the moniker Lhasa, was a Canadian singer of Mexican and Jewish descent. In 1985 at age 13 when her parents separated, Lhasa, her mother and her sisters settled in San Francisco where Lhasa started singing in a Greek cafe. She included Spanish language lessons in her high school studies. After viewing a documentary about Billie Holiday, Lhasa determined that she, too, would make a career in singing. In <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Lhasa+de+Sela
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Key facts
- Also known as
- Lhasa
- Born
- ( 1972-09-27 ) September 27, 1972, Big Indian, New York , U.S.
- Died
- January 1, 2010 (2010-01-01) (aged 37), Montreal , Quebec , Canada
- Genres
- Folk , World
- Occupation
- Singer-songwriter
- Instrument
- Vocals
- Years active
- 1985–2009
- Label
- Audiogram
- Website
- lhasadesela .com
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Encyclopedic overview
Lhasa de Sela (September 27, 1972 – January 1, 2010), also known by the mononym Lhasa, was an American-Mexican-Canadian singer-songwriter who was raised in Mexico and the United States and divided her adult life between Canada and France. Her first album, La Llorona, went Platinum in Canada and brought Lhasa a Félix Award and a Juno Award.
Following this success, Lhasa toured with Lilith Fair and then joined her sisters in a French circus troupe, contributing her husky voice to the musical backdrop. She lived in Marseille and began to write more songs, then she moved back to Montreal and produced a second album, The Living Road. Once again, she toured in support of her album and collaborated with other musicians on their projects. During this time, BBC Radio 3 honoured her as the best world music artist of the Americas in 2005. She published a book about her impressions of life on the road.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lhasa de Sela” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.