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Lhasa de Sela (born 1972), better known as Lhasa, is an American Canadian singer and songwriter who was raised in Mexico and the United States and now lives in Canada. American-Canadians are a major part of the Canadian population and the two countries Canada and the United States share much cultural commonality but are

Lhasa was born in Big Indian, New York, of a Mexican father of Panamanian-Polish-French-Spanish descent and an American mother of Lebanese-Scottish-Russian Jewish descent. The station at Big Indian MP 364 was another Ulster and Delaware Railroad station New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Her first decade was spent criss-crossing the United States and Mexico in a converted school bus with her parents and five sisters where they were home-schooled by her mother. She started singing in a Greek cafe in San Francisco when she was thirteen. A Greek American (Ελληνοαμερικανοί Ellinoamerikani) is a citizen of the United States, who is of Greek heritage or origin A coffeehouse ( French / Portuguese: café; Spanish: cafetería; Italian: caffè The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city At age nineteen she moved to Montreal and sang for five years in bars, where she developed the material that eventually became her first album, La Llorona, released in 1997. Montreal, or Montréal in French ( pronounced in French, in English) is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec La Llorona, which mixes traditional South American songs with original songs, was strongly influenced by Mexican music, but also Eastern European gypsy music and alternative rock. Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative; known primarily in the UK as indie) is a genre of The album was released by the Montreal independent record label Audiogram and brought her much success, including the Félix Award for "Artiste québécois — musique du monde" in 1997 and the Juno Award for Best Global Artist, in 1998. The European Film Awards were originally called the "Felix Awards" The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian Musical Artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music

After touring in Europe and North America for several years, Lhasa left her singing career in 1999 and moved to France to join her three sisters in a circus/theatre company named Pocheros. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. She eventually reached Marseille, where she started writing songs again. Marseille, ( English alt Marseilles mɑrˈseɪ — French: maʁsɛj locally — Provençal Occitan: Marselha maʀˈsijɔ She then returned to Montreal to produce her second album, The Living Road, which was released in 2003. Montreal, or Montréal in French ( pronounced in French, in English) is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec While La Llorona had been entirely in Spanish, The Living Road included songs in English, French and Spanish. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people A two year tour followed the release of "The Living Road", taking her and her group to seventeen countries. She was a guest singer on the Tindersticks' track 'Sometimes It Hurts' off their Waiting for the Moon album, and later joined Tindersticks' singer Stuart Staples for a duet on the track 'That Leaving Feeling', found on his Leaving Songs album. Tindersticks are a rock band from Nottingham, England. Their sound is characterised by a synthesis of orchestral backing lounge Jazz, and She has also appeared as a guest on the albums of French singers Arthur H and Jérôme Minière, and the French gypsy music group Bratsch. Arthur Higelin (born Paris, France 27 March 1966 better known under his stage name Arthur H, is a Pianist, Songwriter and Singer Jérôme Minière is a French instrumentalist and singer who was born in Orléans, France, and moved to Québec. Lhasa received the BBC World Music Award for Best Artist of the Americas in 2005. The accumulated worldwide sales of her two albums are nearing one million, promoted mostly by word-of-mouth.

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