http://communities.canada.com/montrealgazette/blogs/wordsandmusic/archive/2010/01/03/montreal-singer-lhasa-de-sela-dies-of-cancer-at-37.aspx,
She was born in a nomadic family that worked in a traveling circus which brought her numerous contact with different cultures and a quite unique lifestyle. Living to the Jacques Brel way of living that living a short full life is better than long and empty, the great i guess would call her world beat singer Lhasa passed away from breast cancer, not knowing she was sick, you can now imagine my shock.
Her most famous recording remains her first one La Llorona (The crying women) , a suite of very sad, melancolic songs sang dramatically. The follow up called The Living Road was in a similar vein although a bit more folkish but with songs in French and English. Finally she did an album last year called simply Lhasa that was more raw, her voice changed a lot , gone were the melodramatic inflections and she seem to have a deeper voice on it, at times folk at times country. But no matter she still had an unforgettable haunting voice She also did collaborate with the group The Tindersticks