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Re: Ofra Haza

From: woj <woiccare@clutx.clarkson.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 90 00:59:58 EST
Subject: Re: Ofra Haza

lorch@JHUNIX.BITNET (lorch):
> I was told once that she is a really big star in Israel, but that "the Fifty
> Gates of Wisdom" (the album of Yemenite songs) was the first that put an
> ethnic slant to her music.  Her previous albums, I'm told, sound like
> "an Israeli Barabara Streisand".
 
One song on _desert_wind_ called "Fantasamorgana" (or something similar),
which is produced by none other than Tom Dolby lends credence to that
statement - it's a piss-poor ballad. Very blah.
     
woj