Mexican-American-Quebecois chanteuse passed away Friday, apparently due to complications arising from breast cancer . Confirmed here in French. All three of her albums were outstanding.
― ρεμπετις, Monday, 4 January 2010 00:47 (fifteen years ago)
oh shit
― call all destroyer, Monday, 4 January 2010 00:49 (fifteen years ago)
:(
― bnw, Monday, 4 January 2010 00:51 (fifteen years ago)
RIP :(
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Monday, 4 January 2010 01:00 (fifteen years ago)
O_O
― moullet, Monday, 4 January 2010 01:21 (fifteen years ago)
oh crap.how old was she?that's sad.
― m0stlyClean, Monday, 4 January 2010 01:48 (fifteen years ago)
Aw shit.
She was 37 y.o.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 4 January 2010 02:03 (fifteen years ago)
Info in English: http://lhasadesela.com/lhasa_de_sela/menu.php?lang=en
I only know The Living Road but it's great. She put on one of the best shows I saw in 2005 at the Triple Door in Seattle. R.I.P.
― if I don't see more dissent, I'm going to have to check myself in (Matos W.K.), Monday, 4 January 2010 03:56 (fifteen years ago)
holy shit! rip.
― Simon H., Monday, 4 January 2010 04:35 (fifteen years ago)
:( :( :(
so sad. no words.
― meryl streep post-brazilian (s1ocki), Monday, 4 January 2010 06:12 (fifteen years ago)
Too sad. She contributed gorgeous vocals to this Tindersticks song, one of their very best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkxuxajhQMA
― anagram, Monday, 4 January 2010 06:26 (fifteen years ago)
http://blogotheque.net/Lhasa-un-au-revoir
^^^ very much worth checking out
fools gold in particular will rip yr heart out
― meryl streep post-brazilian (s1ocki), Monday, 4 January 2010 19:57 (fifteen years ago)
This is really awful, Lhasa was one of my absolute favourite singers. I wasn't into the new one as much but The Living Road in particular is totally classic for me, a brilliant album and one of very few I'd happily describe as "flawless".
― Tim F, Monday, 4 January 2010 21:59 (fifteen years ago)
Well 2010's off to a shitty start. Terrible news. :(
― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 4 January 2010 23:25 (fifteen years ago)
I soent an amazing after noon in Paris with her - a truly inspiring soulhttp://www.theartsdesk.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=756:rip-lhasa-de-sela&Itemid=29I write up the encounter on theartsdesk.com
― peter culshaw, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 22:17 (fifteen years ago)
Only know her through her most recent album, which I liked a lot. Really sad news.
― Stephen Deusner, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 22:28 (fifteen years ago)
She was one of my favorite singers and I never got the chance to see her perform live. I remember listening to La Llorona five years ago in NYC whilst dealing with some heavy post-breakup depression and it set my heart on fire. Been a fan of her ever since.
She was forced to cancel a long international tour scheduled for autumn 2009. A projected album of the songs of Victor Jara and Violeta Parra would also remain unrealized.
This also sucks, both Jara and Parra are songwriters I admire and the idea of Lhasa covering their material had me hyped. Really hoping they eventually release something off of this project.
― feisty, Spanish, girl (Moka), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 00:32 (fifteen years ago)
:-(
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 16 January 2010 12:58 (fifteen years ago)
Life & thread both inexcusably short tbrr
― deeja entendu (wins), Monday, 16 December 2013 17:58 (eleven years ago)
Miss her
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 18 April 2014 05:08 (eleven years ago)
God.
― moullet, Saturday, 19 July 2014 17:36 (ten years ago)
One of her last performances... fuck I miss her she is so underrated:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4tPbUFnki4
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 23:42 (eight years ago)
Here's a playlist of her live performances if you're interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOLg_XY2cWA&list=PL2309405691CFAB3E
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 23:43 (eight years ago)
mmm didn't work
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 23:46 (eight years ago)
Anyhow check out this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO0wh5Zc6fA&
De Cara a La Pared is my favorite song of hers... probably because it was the first song I heard of her, her voice and the arrangements are so good you don't have to know Spanish to enjoy it.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 23:51 (eight years ago)
Ohhhhhh. :(
― moullet, Sunday, 25 December 2016 12:17 (eight years ago)
did you ever see her live, Moka?
― memories of a cruller (unregistered), Sunday, 25 December 2016 16:56 (eight years ago)
Nope :( one of my biggest regrets. I did met her and exchanged like two sentences with her... she had a great smile. I went to see her when she visited Zacatecas back in 2006 which is like one hour away from my city. She was playing for free in the city's cultural festival they have every year but I was late. One of my friends, Penny, was in charge of booking artists for the cultural events in my city, Aguascalientes (don't know how you call it in english but it's a government office that coordinate cultural events) and she got me in for the press event in her hotel afterwards.
The brief interaction was me shaking hands with her, asking for a hug which made her smile (she did hug me) and I told her that La Llorona got me through a particularly hard time in my life (she smiled at that too... like a grin). I was so happy to see her face to face that I froze and didn't want to take too much time so it was probably two minutes or so. I hated myself for not making it to the concert.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Sunday, 25 December 2016 17:21 (eight years ago)
Why Lhasa de Sela matters...https://longreads.com/2019/11/11/why-lhasa-de-sela-matters/
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 04:53 (five years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzMi3f1x70Y
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 17 January 2020 23:41 (five years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XytH6l0xChE
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Saturday, 18 January 2020 17:12 (five years ago)