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Asha Puthli performed at the prestigious Jazz at Lincoln Center's The Rose Theater for the Benefit Concert " Rock for Rights " on January 18th 2009. The Benefit raised awareness and funds for Human Rights Foundations, causes that Asha has championed as a social activist and through her music.
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June 2008
Rolling Stone
The voice that had producer John H Hammond - he scouted Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen - champion it, is on the revival route. Asha Puthli in her upcoming album Lost, shows us that she can still play the game even after over two decades. Her last album Only the Headaches Remain released in 1982, and now she awaits the release of her ninth solo album in September, though only in Europe under the Kyrone label.
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Fury, the latest novel from Salman Rushdie, has been described as a barely disguised treatment of the author's own marriage break-up, his flight to New York and his subsequent relationship with the arrestingly beautiful actress Padma Lakshmi. But this may not be the first time that Rushdie has drawn on a real- life muse in the creation of his fiction. His previous novel, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, centers around the life of a fictional Indian rock star, Vina Apsara, and how she found fame in the West. Apsara' s character is remarkable for her self-possession, arrogance and total self-belief; she is worshipped and immensely susceptible to adoration.
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Many singers inspire admiration, but few inspire obsession. Asha Puthli, who began her career as a jazz vocalist with Ornette Coleman and evolved into a funk diva, is one of those singers. Her stunning vocal range and idiosyncratic phrasing helped make songs like "Right Down Here" and "Space Talk" cult favorites.
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"If music is the common language of all people, Ms. Puthli speaks it fluently."
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