REVIEW - Natacha Atlas
GORDANA ANDJELIC-DAVILA WEDNESDAY 11 MARCH, 2009 At Natacha’s Melbourne show at the Arts Centre, the audience was treated to this ‘East meets West’ medley, of mesmerizing sounds of love declarations and lament. Among the songs were some old favourites like: Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets from the film of the same name which when performed brought the house to its feet, and people began to dance in the isles to it. Natacha Atlas was born in Brussels, Belgium to a father of Moroccan, Egyptian, and Palestinian ancestry and a British mother. Atlas speaks Arabic, French, English, and Spanish, and she has uses them all to sing her songs. She was raised in Brussels, and in Northampton, England. During her performance at the Arts Centre in Melbourne, on the 10th of March, she mentioned that growing up she listened to music in her household, which was both Western and Eastern, and that she was most influenced by the Rahbani Brothers who combined both styles of ...