On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Denise Benson wrote:
. . . Also, for some fun, try and
> track down the album she did as part of the band/project Monsoon.
> Their song "Ever So Lonely" was a big community radio hit in the later
> '80s and still holds up to my ears. Monsoon was one of the earliest
> pop/dance/South Asian projects to cross over (certainly helped to open
> my ears and curiousity up) and I suspect that a number of listees out
> there own the record and could sing it to this day. Am I right list?
Oddly enough, I have been playing the monsoon album over and over for the
last couple of weeks, after I heard on the radio a newer version of Ever
so lonely Ms. Chandra recorded for Real World. I still love the original
hindi version. 1982 and yet . . .
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> John Book wrote:
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> > >Actually she isn't (it's a huge urban legend in the Filipino community spread by misinterpretation (Nas saying that she was) and rumor (let's just say Filipinos adapted their own form of Hispanic "chisme"), her family is West Indian - Trinidadian to be specific ...she even cleared it up in a recent interview...I'm Filipino myself, so these things show up on my radar screen...)<
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> >>snip>>
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> > On a completely different topic, I got the new album from Sheila Chandra and really liked it. I know she doesn't fit the "acid jazz" category, but I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations for her other albums?
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> > p.e.a.c.e.
> > -John Book
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