Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given two sentences in the English language (Sentence 1 and Sentence 2). Your task is to identify the connecting word between the two sentences.

Sentence 1:Of music , Joan Carlyle , an English opera singer , was born in Upton . Sentence 2:Meanwhile , Chris Shaw , is an English synthpop musician , from Upton .
meanwhile