Who is Sasha Lazard?
Sasha Lazard is an American classical crossover singer. Lazard was born in New York City and grew up in Paris. She attended Bennington College and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she studied opera, but after graduation, she pursued a more electronic-influenced sound which was inspired by the local nightclub scene. She performed her new music at several clubs in New York, Los Angeles, and Ibiza before recording an album. Lazard released her debut album The Myth Of Red on May 7, 2002 through Higher Octave Music. This album, loosely themed around the myth of Inanna descending to the underworld, appeared on the Billboard charts for both dance music and classical crossover. It features versions of Ave Maria (entitled "Ode to Innocence") and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater.". It also contains a track entitled "Tell Me Why," featuring violinist Lili Haydn, that was inspired by Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata. The lyrics from "The Incubus (Le Revenant)" were written by ...