Yay!

[hummingwolf]

I'm sitting here idly listening to my Launchcast station and what do I hear very much to my surprise? Sheila Chandra! I didn't think I'd ever see the day. They've finally got Sheila on Launchcast! My life is complete.

Okay, my life isn't complete at all, but I'm still pleased.

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[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

my life is not complete -- i have no idea who she is. goody, something to investigate! :)

listen, miss hummingwolf, i wish you a good week while i'm away. don't let the county get away with anything while i'm gone, like tripling taxes or whatever. [g]

wishing you cooler weather all week...

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Oh, I never got around to responding to this, did I? Sheila Chandra is an British woman born to Indian parents who began her career as a teenage actress on a soap opera whose name eludes me. In the early 1980s she went from being teenage actress to teenage popstar as the singer for a trio called Monsoon whose hit single "Ever So Lonely" and album Third Eye combined '80s dance-pop with Asian influences. In 1984 and 1985, Sheila released 4 "solo" albums (working with the same guys who were in Monsoon) along similar lines though progressively less pop-sounding. Then she went into retirement for five years, traveling around the world exploring different kinds of music and training in various vocal techniques, after which she began releasing music much more focused on her singing than on the cute instrumentation of the early albums. She's the kind of performer who can sing an old Scottish folk song with Islamic vocal techniques without sounding like an idiot. She's really very good.

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

how interesting! i will definitely seek out some samples, at the least. thanks for the info. :)

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

p.s. launchcast served me up, first thing, an interview with roland orzabal!! oh geez, i have loved that little man for years & years, since 1984. i stole my theology & my eternal tagline from him!

...i believe in Love Power...[Orzabal]

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I haven't even heard Roland's solo stuff on my Launchcast station yet! Might have something to do with the ongoing disputes with the record labels--there are some albums marked as "available on Launchcast" which a LC user can hear on other people's stations but not on their own, which causes no end of confusion.

Yeah, I'm a fan of Orzabal's music myself--but you probably guessed that by now. :-)

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

some of his melodies on the early albums are phenomenal (i love "the working hour" to distraction), and his voice got better & better. i remember the Post saying of him, when they toured years ago, that his voice had "operatic sweep." he's a guilty pleasure somehow, though -- not PC, or something. they bore the stigma of being too popular with the teeny boppers in the mid-80's. musically he's quite creative. and he did introduce us to Oleta Adams! thanks, roland. :)