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Lush Life explores Singapore’s nascent pop scene through lives of Jacintha Abisheganaden and Dick Lee
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Jacintha Abisheganaden plays herself in Lush Life, based on the story of her life and marriage to Dick Lee.
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SINGAPORE – Jazz singer Jacintha Abisheganaden may have a dreamy way about her, but those around her are palpably nervous. “It’s not blue, is it?” she inquires at one point of her mascara. “No, no, no, no, no blue,” the make-up artist could only stammer.
Despite a lower profile in recent years, Abisheganaden’s bona fide cultural status – a pioneer jazz singer who gained international recognition with albums such as Here’s To Ben (1998) and Autumn Leaves (1999), and a star of 1990s Singapore English theatre – is undiminished.
