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After viewing a documentary about Billie Holiday, Lhasa determined that she, too, would make a career in singing. She included Spanish language lessons in her high school studies. Īt age 13 when her parents separated, Lhasa, her mother and her sisters settled in San Francisco where Lhasa started singing in a Greek cafe. As a child, she dreamed of marrying him some day, not knowing he had been killed. Along with her family she listened to a wide variety of recordings including songs by Chilean musician Victor Jara. 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. 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. Her mother played harp and her father played flute.
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Lhasa had a Lebanese great-grandfather named Basel who sang in six languages. 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's maternal grandmother was Elena Karam (1909–2001), an actress best known for her leading role in Elia Kazan's film America America. According to Lhasa, her 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 was born in Big Indian, New York, the daughter of a Mexican father, language instructor Alejandro "Alex" Sela, and an American mother, photographer and actress Alexandra Karam. A memorial program of her music was produced in January 2012, performed in Montreal by artists who had worked with her. After 21 months of treatment, she died on New Year's Day 2010. Lhasa recorded a third album, titled Lhasa, but she was diagnosed with cancer in 2009 around the time it was released.
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She published a book about her impressions of life on the road. During this time, BBC Radio 3 honoured her as the best world music artist of the Americas in 2005. Once again, she toured in support of her album and collaborated with other musicians on their projects. She lived in Marseille and began to write more songs, then she moved back to Montreal and produced a second album, The Living Road.
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Her first album, La Llorona, went Platinum in Canada and brought Lhasa a Félix Award and a Juno Award.įollowing 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. Lhasa de Sela (Septem– January 1, 2010), also known by the mononym Lhasa, was an American-Canadian singer-songwriter who was raised in Mexico and the United States and divided her adult life between Canada and France.
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