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Lila Downs (born 1968 in Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, Mexico) is a Mexican singer. She performs her own compositions as well as tapping into native Mesoamerican music of the Mixtec, Zapotec, Maya and Nahuatl cultures.

Downs, is the daughter of a Mixtec woman and Allen Downs, a Scottish/English-American professor of art and cinematographer from Minnesota. She grew up partly in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, partly in the U.S. states in California as a teen, and Minnesota as an adult where she graduated from the University of Minnesota in voice and anthropology.

She later returned to Mexico where she learned to weave. Later, she began singing in the club scenes of Oaxaca and Philadelphia along with Paul Cohen, an American-born saxophonist. They began collaborating together on songs that would slowly evolve into Downs's subsequent recordings. Cohen went on to become both Downs' husband and artistic director.

In recent years, Downs and her band have toured widely in Mexico, South America, the US and Europe. She was also heard in the soundtrack to the movie Frida in a song, Burn it Blue, that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song and that she performed at the 75th Academy Awards. Other songs that she performed on the soundtrack are "Benediction and Dream," "Estrella Oscura," and "La Llorona." Other movies with a Lila Downs song are "Tortilla Soup" and "Real Women Have Curves". Downs is currently based in Coyoacán, a neighborhood of Mexico City.

Discography

* La Cantina (Narada 2006)
* Una Sangre (one Blood) (Narada 2004)
* Border (La Linea) (Narada 2001)
* Tree of Life (Narada 2000)
* La Sandunga (Narada 1999)
* Azuláo: En Vivo con Lida Downs (1996)
* Ofrenda (1994)

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Shake Away, Lila Downs

Lila Downs sings the traditional music of Southern Mexico, the other half of music culture that doesn’t identify itself with Mexico’s northern popular music (Norteño, Banda… etc). The 2002 film Frida (Julie Taylor) launched the ... Continue reading


Lila Downs sings Paloma Negra (Black Bird)

I first heard this song in the soundtrack to "Frida" (in which Lila sings the famous Tango scene while Frida dances with and kisses a woman) and when I heard Lila Downs do it I changed a little bit inside. Lila opens her new tour at the ... Continue reading


Lila Downs Tours in Support of New Album

Exploring and expressing Mexico’s rich culture has been a lifelong passion for Lila Downs. On Shake Away, Downs takes listeners on a journey that’s both intensely personal and vividly universal. Recorded in New York and Mexico City, ... Continue reading


Lila Downs - 09-22

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Etown Presents Lila Downs and Gregory Alan Isakov on September ...

Lila Downs is a treasure…a bi-cultural singer/songwriter raised in the Mixtec region of Oaxaca, Mexico and in Minnesota. Exploring and expressing Mexico’s rich culture has been a lifelong passion for Lila and it is expressed beautifully ... Continue reading


Soundcheck-Lila Downs

Mexican-American singer Lila Downs with Soundcheck's John Schaefer, September 3, 2008. Downs has often tackled hot-button issues like immigration and feminism. So it's no surprise that in her new album, "Shake Away," she has included ... Continue reading


Lila Downs on Mexican Pride (Soundcheck: Wednesday, 03 September 2008)

Mexican-American singer Lila Downs has often tackled hot-button issues like immigration and feminism. So it's no surprise that in her new album, "Shake Away," she has included songs about minimum wage and nostalgia for the homeland. ... Continue reading


Lila Downs, straddling the border

Although several quality albums came out yesterday, right now I'm going to tell you about Mexican-American singer Lila Downs' latest Shake Away. If you're not familiar with Lila, she was born in Mexico and then moved to LA at an early ... Continue reading


New Lila Downs

Release Date: 09/02/2008 Lila Downs’ Shake Away is easily the most polished and refined release since she released Ofrenda in 1994. By turns, it is also the most ambitious. Co-produced by Downs, longtime collaborators Paul Cohen, ... Continue reading


La Cumbia Del Mole by Lila Downs

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