The Enchantment, by Sheila Chandra

from the album Weaving My Ancestors' Voices

Sheila Chandra

#NP: #NowPlaying:

various artists - 'Voices Of The Real World' (2000)

Nice collection of #RealWorld records, with emphasis on vocalists. #ShuDe #NusratFatehAliKhan #GeoffreyOryama #PapaWemba #AyubOgada #TotólaMomposina #MariBoine #SheilaChandra #IarlaÓLionáird and many others CDRW81

#NP: #NowPlaying:

various artists - 'Real World Presents' (1993)

Nice #RealWorld music sampler. Six artists: #SheilaChandra, #SERogie, Tuvanian #ShuDe, #NusratFatehAliKhan, #DoudouNDayeRose and the collective #CaroleRowley, #SimonEmerson & #RawStylus. RWSAM1

#NowPlaying: #SheilaChandra - Out in the Real World. Because the world is sometimes not pretty, so your music should be. #RealWorldRecords https://sheilachandra.bandcamp.com/album/out-in-the-real-world
Out in the Real World, by Sheila Chandra

8 track album

Sheila Chandra
#NowPlaying Groundbreaking crossover album from #sheilachandra and if you’re an old git like me you’ll remember her fondly from Grange Hill. #worldmusic

Topic: #Music

Some of my favorite music, in the form of tags:

Jpop: #LiSA, #milet, #Anly, #LeoIeiri (That's an i in the start of her surname), #AiTakaoka, #GARNETCROW, most of #HelloProject
Kpop: #KARA, #SNSD, #WonderGirls, #BoA, #TWICE, #LESSERAFIM
Other: #TheCranberries, #AngeliqueKidjo, #SheilaChandra

Also: 1980s music, 1920s-1940s music

So glad I came across this article. In 1982 Texas, I bought the Ever So Lonely single on vinyl. The play speed wasn't on the label so I didn't know if it was a soulful man singing at 33 rpm or a more upbeat woman singing at 45 rpm

I loved it both ways!
#uksinglecharts #SheilaChandra #EverSoLonely

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/29/sheila-chandra-monsoon-interview-ever-so-lonely?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

‘It was revelatory for younger Asians’: Monsoon’s Sheila Chandra on her hit Ever So Lonely

In 1982, no-one had ever seen a British Asian teenager in a sari singing Indian music on Top of the Pops – until Chandra appeared, with a raga-influenced single that would inspire musicians and DJs for decades

The Guardian