Untimely Death of Multiple Artists
As we all have been seeing and hearing, we saw yet another “untimely death’ of a very talented and well known artist today, Jay Retard. Due to the Holidays, or perhaps the flood of bad news, some may have missed the death of Lhasa de Sela who was born in America but was quite an exotic blend. Her first album, “La Llorona”, as a curiosity, an exotic accident. The singer and songwriter appeared from nowhere in 1997 with an album that defied definition, capturing a Latin world of her own imagination born of an itinerant childhood spent between Mexico and the US. The music was both familiar and truly unique, a mix of ranchera music, Eastern European gypsy music, country, and popular songwriting, with intensely personal lyrics in Spanish, and a passionate vocal delivery. The album was written and produced in Canada. It contained songs inspired by a warm country but written in a cold one,
It’s true that when they heard it, people from North America and Europe sighed and said “Ah, Mexico…”, and Mexicans said, “What strange music! Where is she from?”
official website for Lhasa de Sela
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