"Why Lhasa de Sela Matters" is an intimate portrait of the creativity that resulted from the collision of a hopeful and hopeless romantic

I remember buying my first Lhasa de Sela CD at Austin, Texas' famed Waterloo records in the late 1990s. Composed in Spanish, La Llorona (1997) contained 11 songs of soul bliss with a range of octaves and notes with which Lhasa, as she was known, caressed the words of the stories the songs told with the sonic beauty of orchestrated grace. — Read the rest