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Con Toda Palabra:
Lhasa de Sela
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Lhasa de Sela makes music that mixes the melodies and languages from her life--English, Spanish and French. The Mexican-American singer/songwriter grew up in Mexico and the US, lived in Montreal and has now adopted France as a second home. Her first album, La Llorona mixed Spanish melodies with a klezmer-sounding clarinet, and everything in between. It went platinum in Canada and had similar success in France. The songs on her latest album, The Living Road are in the three languages.

In this piece, Lhasa talks in her own words about the influence of languages and her life on her music.

This piece is available from the Public Radio Exchange.



This piece was produced for The World and was originally aired on May 16, 2005. It also aired April 25, 2006, on Ireland's RTE Radio 1's Round Midnight.

Producer: Sarah Elzas
Recorded in Paris, France
Photo: Cover of La Llorona

Music:
- La Celestina (La Llorona)
- Con Toda Palabra (The Living Road)
- La Confession (The Living Road)
- Anywhere on This Road (The Living Road)
- Para el Fin del Mundo O el Aņo Nuevo (The Living Road)
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TEXT
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Introduction
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Transcript
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Review
("Hearing the languages colliding... on a bed of wall-to-wall, intensely colorful music is very pleasurable")
LINKS
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Lhasa's official site.
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Information about upcoming concerts from Impresaria, her press agent.
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News and photos from a fan site.
 
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