
photo: Carl Lessard) I knew very little about Mexican-American folk artist Lhasa de Sela, who records under the name Lhasa , before she appeared on the Polaris Music Prize long list last week, and in many ways, I feel that now I know even less. She has amassed accolades the world over for her globally-inspired music, appeared on Tindersticks albums, performed in a circus with her two sisters in France, and was raised out of the back of a converted school bus that crisscrossed the U.S. and Mexico. Imagine the stories [...]