| La Llorona | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Lhasa de Sela |
| Cover: | La Llorona cover.jpg |
| Released: | 4 February 1997 |
| Recorded: | Chez Frank Studios, Montreal |
| Genre: | Latin, folk, world music, Gypsy jazz |
| Label: | Audiogram (Canada), Atlantic (USA) |
| Next Title: | The Living Road |
| Next Year: | 2003 |
La Llorona is the debut studio album by Canadian singer Lhasa de Sela, released in 1997 in Canada and 1998 elsewhere.
Alejandro Sela, Lhasa's father, received his doctorate on literature of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and taught her of the legend of La Llorona.[1] This is the folktale of the crying woman, resembled the mythological wife of Quetzalcoatl who has lost her children. For Lhasa, La Llorona comes from the omen of conquerors. Lhasa believes that the woman cried when the Spanish arrived in America to warn her native children of the doom that the conquistadors would bring to their way of life.
According to billboard in 2003, it had sold 120,000 units in Canada (Platinium [2]), 330,000 in France, and 30,000 in the U.S [3]
All music and lyrics by Lhasa de Sela and Yves Desrosiers except where noted.