Lhasa De Sela - Discography '1998-2017

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	       Lhasa was born in Big Indian, New York, of a Mexican father, language
instructor Alejandro "Alex" Sela, and an American mother, photographer and
actress Alexandra Karam. According to Lhasa, her hippie parents did not give her
a name until the age of five months; her mother was reading a book about Tibet
and the word Lhasa "just grabbed her" as the right name for the baby girl.
Lhasa's maternal grandmother was Elena Karam (1909–2001), an actress best
known for her leading role in Elia Kazan's film America America. Her paternal
grandmother was Carmen de Obarrio (1906–1982), a Panamanian pianist who
studied in Los Angeles with Egon Petri, and with Edgar Varèse in San Francisco.
Lhasa had a Lebanese great-grandfather named Basel who sang in six languages.
Her mother played harp and her father played flute. Her first decade was spent
criss-crossing the United States and Mexico, living and traveling in a converted
school bus with her parents and siblings, home-schooled by her mother.Both her
parents spoke fluent Spanish, but she was raised speaking primarily English,
with Spanish added during a total of eight years' residence in Mexico. Along
with her family she listened to a wide variety of recordings including songs by
Chilean musician Victor Jara; as a young child she dreamed of marrying him some
day, not knowing he had been killed.

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 1991, she traveled to Montreal, Quebec, Canada to visit her sisters who were
students at l'École nationale de cirque, the National Circus School of Canada,
and she decided to make Montreal her home. Steeped in a Francophone culture for
the first time, she sang for five years in bars, collaborating with rock
guitarist Yves Desrosiers. In 1992, Denis Wolff, general manager of the
independent Canadian record company, Audiogram, saw Lhasa performing, her head
shaved, in front of a tiny nightclub audience. He was struck with "her
personality, her charisma and her voice" – he soon signed her to the label.
With Desrosiers she developed the material that eventually became her first
album.

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Discography
1998 La Llorona FLAC
2003 The Living Road FLAC
2009 Lhasa FLAC
2017 Live in Reykjavik (Live) FLAC

New - 2013 Lhasa La Llorona 24-48 Hi-Res

Tracklist:
01. Lhasa de Sela - De cara a la pared (4:16)
02. Lhasa de Sela - La celestina (4:47)
03. Lhasa de Sela - El desierto (3:53)
04. Lhasa de Sela - Por eso me quedo (3:51)
05. Lhasa de Sela - El payande (3:32)
06. Lhasa de Sela - Los peces (3:52)
07. Lhasa de Sela - Floricanto (4:10)
08. Lhasa de Sela - Desdenosa (4:34)
09. Lhasa de Sela - El pajaro (3:59)
10. Lhasa de Sela - Mi vanidad (4:13)
11. Lhasa de Sela - 2 Canciones, Op. 3 No. 1. Cancion al arbol del olvido (Song
of the Tree of Forgetfulness) (3:14)

 1998 La Llorona
01. Lhasa - De cara a la pared
02. Lhasa - La celestina
03. Lhasa - El desierto
04. Lhasa - Por eso me quedo
05. Lhasa - El Payande
06. Lhasa - Los peces
07. Lhasa - Floricanto
08. Lhasa - Desdenosa
09. Lhasa - El pajaro
10. Lhasa - Mi vanidad
11. Lhasa - El arbol del olvido

2003 The Living Road
01. Lhasa - Con Toda Palabra
02. Lhasa - La maree haute
03. Lhasa - Anywhere on this road
04. Lhasa - Abro la ventana
05. Lhasa - J'arrive a la ville
06. Lhasa - La Frontera
07. Lhasa - La confession
08. Lhasa - Small Song
09. Lhasa - My name
10. Lhasa - Pa' Llegar a tu lado
11. Lhasa - Para el fin del mundo el ano nuevo
12. Lhasa - Soon this space will be too small

2009 Lhasa
01. Lhasa - Is Anything Wrong
02. Lhasa - Rising
03. Lhasa - Love Came Here
04. Lhasa - What Kind Of Heart
05. Lhasa - Bells
06. Lhasa - Fool's Gold
07. Lhasa - A Fish On Land
08. Lhasa - Where Do You Go
09. Lhasa - The Lonely Spider
10. Lhasa - 1001 Nights
11. Lhasa - I'm Going In
12. Lhasa - Anyone And Everyone

2017 Live in Reykjavik (Live)
01. Lhasa - Is Anything Wrong (Live)
02. Lhasa - Bells (Live)
03. Lhasa - Rising (Live)
04. Lhasa - Con Toda Palabra (Live)
05. Lhasa - Love Came Here (Live)
06. Lhasa - The Lonely Spider (Live)
07. Lhasa - Fool's Gold (Live)
08. Lhasa - Fish on Land (Live)
09. Lhasa - La Confession (Live)
10. Lhasa - De Cara a la Pared (Live)
11. Lhasa - 1001 Nights (Live)
12. Lhasa - Para el Fin del Mundo (Live)
13. Lhasa - A Change Is Gonna Come (Live)
14. Lhasa - Anyone Everyone (Live)

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