{"id":2969,"date":"2010-01-11T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/?p=2969"},"modified":"2010-01-10T18:10:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T02:10:09","slug":"lhasa-de-sela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/misc\/music\/lhasa-de-sela\/","title":{"rendered":"Lhasa de Sela"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The great Montreal-based singer Lhasa de Sela died January 1 of breast cancer at the age of thirty-seven. Lhasa was born to an American mother and Mexican father in a small town in the Catskill Mountains. As a child in the U.S. and Mexico she lived the life of a nomad in a converted school bus (she had nine siblings), and as an adult she continued to travel widely, living for a time in Marseilles. Life, she said, is “a road constantly changing and, being on it, you change too.” Her music is trilingual, freely mixing English, Spanish, and French. I love it.<\/p>\n

These are the lyrics of “Con Toda Palabra,” the song performed in the video above.<\/p>\n

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Con toda palabra
\nCon toda sonrisa
\nCon toda mirada
\nCon toda carici<\/p>\n

Me acerco al agua
\nBebiendo tu beso
\nLa luz de tu cara
\nLa luz de tu cuerpo <\/p>\n

Es ruego el quererte
\nEs canto de mudo
\nMirada de ciego
\nSecreto desnudo<\/p>\n

Me entrego a tus brazos
\nCon miedo y con calma
\nY un ruego en la boca
\nY un ruego en el alma<\/p>\n

Con toda palabra
\nCon toda sonrisa
\nCon toda mirada
\nCon toda caricia <\/p>\n

Me acerco al fuego
\nQue todo lo quema
\nLa luz de tu cara
\nLa luz de tu cuerpo <\/p>\n

Es ruego el quererte
\nEs canto de mudo
\nMirada de ciego
\nSecreto desnudo <\/p>\n

Me entrego a tus brazos
\nCon miedo y con calma
\nY un ruego en la boca
\nY un ruego en el alma<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here’s a quick, rough English translation<\/p>\n

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With every word
\nWith every smile
\nWith every glance
\nWith every caress<\/p>\n

I come to the water
\nDrinking your kiss
\nThe light of your face
\nThe light of your body<\/p>\n

Loving you is a prayer
\nThe song of the mute
\nThe gaze of the blind
\nSecret nakedness<\/p>\n

I surrender to your arms
\nFearfully, calmly,
\nA prayer in my mouth
\nA plea in my soul<\/p>\n

With every word
\nWith every smile
\nWith every glance
\nWith every caress<\/p>\n

I come to the fire
\nThat burns everything
\nThe light of your face
\nThe light of your body<\/p>\n

Loving you is a prayer
\nThe song of the mute
\nThe gaze of the blind
\nSecret nakedness<\/p>\n

I surrender to your arms
\nFearfully, calmly,
\nA prayer in my mouth
\nA plea in my soul<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Lhasa, you will be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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