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A year in the circus helped the singer make an intimate, personal second record

By James Reed

Globe Correspondent / February 4, 2005

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Lhasa de Sela, a Mexican-American singer-songwriter who goes by Lhasa, had no reason to expect that her debut album, ''La Llorona," would become one of 1998's international sleeper hits. At the time, she was singing in Montreal bars to modest crowds, ''poor but getting by on pasta," she says, and reading Spanish-American poetry from the early 1900s passed along to ... (Full article: 987 words)