Ofra Haza

[KELNER@LL.ARPA]

> From: elliott@UNRVAX.UNR.EDU (Andrew Elliott)

> Subject:   Efra Haza

> I am very interested to find out if any other Love-hounds have heard
> of Efra Haza.  She is an israeli singer who puts old yemenite poety
> to music.  Her music is really very different than anything else I
> have ever heard.  It would go in the category with Sinead O'connor,
> Danielle Dax, and or course Kate.
 
  I have an album by "Ofra Haza" (I assume that was a typo. when you
wrote "Efra Haza") which has no title.  There's a picture of her on
the cover with what I assume is a Yemenite wedding costume on.  It's
rather elaborate, to say the least.  I bought the record in a store in
Harvard Square (Cambridge Mass.) but I don't have it with me now.  If
someone likes I can find what record company it is -- I don't think
it's American.
 
  I have no idea what the words are but I think the songs are her
arrangements of traditional Jewish-Yemenite songs.  Somehow they all
sound more modern than what you'd assume such music would sound like
and she does have the type of voice that might be capable of singing a
Kate Bush or S. O'Connor song.  I also really like it and agree it's
different from anything else I've heard.
 
  Robert Kelner