“A nomadic life distilled into song: three albums across three languages, each one burning slower and more intimate than the last.”
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Curatorial notes
Lhasa de Sela lived as she sang — across borders, languages, and the fixed categories that keep other artists legible. Born in New York to a Mexican father and an American-Jewish mother, raised between Mexico, the United States, and eventually Montreal, she never belonged fully to any single tradition. Her debut, *La Llorona* (1997), emerged from the Mexican folk idiom — the weeping woman, the...
