Lila Downs
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Biography
[Edit]Singer Lila Downs grew up with the culture of her father, a professor from the United States, but eventually turned her back on it to explore the tradition of her mother, a Mixteca Indian from Mexico. In doing so, she has created a very individual strain of song that has indigenous Mexican roots and North American sonorities. Born in 1968, she spent her early years in Mexico, but after her parents split up, she was shuffled off to live with a relative in California. She grew to love music, specifically classical and opera, and began studying those in college. After two years, however, she experienced a crisis, questioning why she was singing and dropping out to become a Deadhead, following the Grateful Dead around the country in a VW bus and earning money by making and selling jewelry, and not singing at all.
Although not particularly moved by the Dead's music, she enjoyed the lifestyle for a short time, before heading back to college in Minnesota, where her father lived. When she finally graduated, it was with a double degree, in anthropology and voice, and a renewed enthusiasm for both her Mexican heritage and singing. Settling in her mother's hometown of Oaxaca, she began vocalizing again, and exploring her roots, while realizing that she was still half Yankee. She met up with Philadelphia-based jazz pianist Paul Cohen, and the pair began a professional and personal relationship whose first fruit was the self-released, cassette-only Ofrenda in 1994. That was followed two years later by another cassette, the live Azuláo: En Vivo con Lida Downs, one of whose songs won Best Original Latin Jazz Composition in a Philadelphia poll.
Along with jazz, she was slowly developing a more intense, folkloric style that began to rear its head on 1997's La Sandunga (released in the U.S. on BMG in 1999), whose title track and "La Llorana" offered a hearty passion not to be heard on her jazzier efforts. That vocal promise was fulfilled in 2000 with the release of Tree of Life, the lyrics of which were largely derived from the religious codices of the Mixteca and Zapotec people. The album was recorded in Oaxaca, where Downs and Cohen were sustained by a foundation grant, although their home base remains Mexico City. Tree of Life was also her first recording for the the Narada label, where she would remain for eight years. The next year, Downs issued Border (La Linea). In 2004 Una Sangre (One Blood) was released, followed by 2006's La Cantina, whose song "La Cumbia del Mole" presented the singer with the opportunity to make her first-ever music video. Downs and her band released her final album for the Narada imprint, Ojo de Culebra, in 2008, and followed it up with Lila Downs y la Misteriosa en Paris - Live à FIP on World Village in 2010. Her seventh studio album, Pecados y Milagros, arrived a year later in 2011, with Canciones Pa' Todo el Año following a year after that in 2012.
Title: Desde Bellas Artes México (En Vivo) / Desde Bellas Artes Mexico (En Vivo)
Artist: Lila Downs
Genre: World Music, Latin, Folk
Title: Raíz / Raiz
Artist: Soledad, Lila Downs, Niña Pastori / Nina Pastori
Genre: World Music, Folk
Title: En Paris - Live A FIP
Artist: Lila Downs, La Misteriosa
Genre: Blues, Latin Folk, World Music, Latin
Title: Una Sangre (One Blood)
Artist: Lila Downs
Genre: Jazz, Rock, Rock & Roll, Reggae, Roots Reggae, Latin
Title: Lila Downs Y La Misteriosa En Paris - Live A Fip
Artist: Lila Downs
Genre: World Music, Latin
Title: Salón Lágrimas Y Deseo / Salon Lagrimas Y Deseo
Artist: Lila Downs
Genre: World Music, Ethnic , American Folk
Title: Lila Downs 7.7. 06 Lorrach Germany
Artist: Lila Downs
Genre: Blues, Latin Folk, World Music, Latin
Collections
Title: Top 50 World Music Treasures
Genre: World Music
Title: World Music Treasures
Genre: World Music
Title: Lullabies from the Axis of Evil
Genre: World Music, Kids
Title: World Music Dance Party
Genre: World Music
Title: Discover Latin América / Discover Latin America
Genre: Latin
Title: Mexican Divas
Genre: World Music
Title: Mexican Divas
Genre: Latin
Title: Diva Latino Two
Genre: World Music, Latin
Title: Sentindo Latina
Genre: Latin
Title: Divas Of Mexico, Vol. 1
Genre: Latin
Title: Mexican Divas Vol. II
Genre: World Music
Title: Xëëw, Vol. 2 / Xeew, Vol. 2
Title: Downtempo World Music
Genre: World Music
Title: We Are the World / United In Song
Genre: World Music, Pop
Title: Nueve Viento
Genre: Latin
Title: Live from the Old Town School, Vol. 4
Genre: World Music
Title: Discover Latin Jazz
Title: Hay Que Volver a Empezar II
Genre: Pop
Title: Que Bonito Amor
Genre: Latin
Title: Best of Bolero
Genre: World Music, Latin
Title: World Music of the 90s
Genre: World Music
Title: En Mi País / En Mi Pais
Title: World Music Essentials - 00's
Genre: World Music
Title: Bolero: Gems
Genre: World Music
Title: Diva Fever
Genre: Latin
Title: El Mariachi Gringo (Soundtrack)
Genre: Latin, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Sweetheart
Genre: Rock, Alternative
Title: Kosmos Vol. 2 - Ethnic Collection CD 1
Genre: Jazz, World Music, Ethnic
Title: COMPACT DISC CLUB - BABEL CD 1
Genre: World Music
Title: Compact Disc Club - Babel CD 2
Genre: World Music
Title: Compact Disc Club - Colors CD 2
Genre: Chill Out, World Music, Lounge
Title: Compact Disc Club - Colors CD 4
Genre: Chill Out, World Music, Lounge
Title: Putumayo Presents: Mexico
Genre: World Music
Title: Colors Collection: Ethnic Music CD 2
Genre: Jazz, Gypsy Jazz, Rock, Tango, World Music, Latin, Pop
Title: Colors Collection: Ethnic Music CD 4
Genre: Electronica, Dancefloor, Disco, Pop, Dance Pop, Lounge
Title: Focal No. 8 - The Spirit Of Sound
Genre: House, Electro House, Euro House, Dancefloor, Pop, Dance Pop
Title: Compilado San Valentin (CD3)
Title: Hecho En México / Hecho En Mexico
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Homenaje A Pedro Infante 50 Aniversario
Genre: Latin
Title: Locos X La Musica Latina
Genre: Pop
Title: La Mega Fiesta Latina Del Caribe 2014 (CD1)
Genre: Latin
Title: Music Traveller - Mexico
Genre: World Music
Title: Latino Pervesso
Genre: Rock, Dancefloor, Latin, Pop
Title: Latino. Pervesso
Genre: Rock, Dancefloor, Latin, Pop
Title: 25 Putumayo Albums (Mexico)
Genre: World Music, Latin, Ethnic , American Folk
Title: 25 Putumayo Albums (Women Of Latin America)
Genre: World Music, Ethnic , American Folk
Title: La Ranchera Ayer Y Hoy (CD2)
Genre: World Music, Folk
Title: Appleseed's 21st Anniversary: Roots And Branches (CD2)
Genre: Blues, Jazz, Rock, Punk Rock, World Music, Country, Pop, Folk
Title: 190 DJ Loaded Thinking Approach To EDM 2019 (CD3)
Genre: House, Reggaeton, World Music, Latin, Disco, Funk, Dubstep, Trap
Title: New Music Releases Week 18 Of 2019 (CD2)
Genre: Electro, Hip Hop/R&B, Rap, Dancefloor, World Music, Latin, Rockabilly, Dance Pop, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist, Indie, Folk
Title: Agustín Lara A 50 Años / Agustin Lara A 50 Anos
Genre: Pop, Classical, Vocal & Symphonic
Title: New Music Releases Week 32 Of 2021 (CD9)
Genre: Electronica, Hip Hop/R&B, Rock, Punk Rock, Dancefloor, Latin, Pop, Dance Pop
Featuring albums
Title: Wretches & Jabberers Soundtrack by J. Ralph Featuring Various Artists
Artist: J. Ralph
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Frida (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
Artist: Elliot Goldenthal
Genre: Latin, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Spain in My Heart: Songs of the Spanish Civil War
Artist: Songs Of The Spanish Civil War
Genre:
Title: Mexican Divas
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Electronica, Rock, Dancefloor, World Music, Latin, Pop, Dance Pop
Title: The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada (Original Soundtrack)
Artist: Marco Beltrami
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Wretches & Jabberers (Original Soundtrack)
Artist: J. Ralph
Genre: World Music, Theatre/Soundtrack, Acoustic, Classical, Folk
Title: Súper Éxitos Rancheros Vol. 2 / Super Exitos Rancheros Vol. 2
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Latin
Title: Appleseed's 21st Anniversary: Roots and Branches
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Decreto Por El Regreso De Los Buenos Tiempos
Artist: Mon Laferte