1980 SHUSHA - Here I Love You - RHAP 2 Autographs & Press Release Signed Letter
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Included with the LP is a press release, photocopies of media reviews and a wonderful, one-off, typed and signed letter from Shusha sent from her Chelsea home. The cover also has a hand written dedication and her signature.
Lesley Duncan is a backing vocalist on this record - better known for her singing on Pink Floyd’s 1973 release - The Dark Side Of The Moon.
Shusha Guppy channeled the musical traditions of her native Iran to create some of the most beguiling and innovative folk records of the singer/songwriter era -- she is perhaps even better known for her award-winning memoir, The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood. Born Shansi Assar in Tehran on December 24, 1935, she was the daughter of distinguished theologian Mohammad Kazem Assar, the longtime chair of philosophy at Tehran University. At 17 she was sent to Paris to study French literature at the Sorbonne, additionally training as an opera singer. There she adopted the name Shusha, becoming deeply immersed in the leftist ideologies of thinkers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Aragon -- she also counted among her friends the poet and screenwriter Jacques Prévert, who encouraged her interest in traditional Persian folk songs as well as the contemporary French chansons and ballads popularized by Juliette Gréco, and after honing a repertoire of original songs in both French and Persian, she began performing live across the French cabaret circuit. After marrying art dealer and explorer Nicholas Guppy in 1961, Shusha relocated to London, where she embraced the American protest folk of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. She also launched a career as a journalist, writing for publications on both sides of the Atlantic, and for years served as London editor of The Paris Review.
Biography by Jason Ankeny
1980 SHUSHA - Here I Love You - Rhapsody RHAP 2 Autographs & Press Release. Condition is Used. Dispatched with Royal Mail 1st Class.
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