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5.0 out of 5 stars
A Jewel of the East that Should be Heard in the West, January 15, 2006
I was walking through through shady shopping mall in Hong Kong looking for pirated software when I heard some bossa nova coming from a tiny record store no more than 9 metres squared. I asked the guy, who was playing? and he showed me this album.
I immediately bought this one and two others by Lisa Ono. She's incredibly popular in the Far East being born in Japan to a father of Brazilian descent (I think). All of her music shines but this album just beats the lot.
Here's my Lisa Ono story. The husband of my wife's best friend is an executive at MTV Europe. When they come round for dinner, we're always embarrassed by what music we're going to play knowing whatever it is won't make the grade with this guy. Knowing that he would have never heard of Lisa Ono, we put this album on fearing the worst. Result, he loved it and we spent the whole evening listening to the other 3 CDs.
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