Lila Downs




Ana Lila Downs Sánchez, best known as Lila Downs (born September 9, 1968) is an American–Mexican singer-songwriter and actress. She performs her own compositions as well as tapping into Mexican traditional and popular music. She also incorporates indigenous Mexican influences and has recorded songs in many indigenous languages such as Mixtec, Zapotec, Mayan, Nahuatl and P'urhepecha (Tarascan). Born and raised in Oaxaca, she primarily studied at the Institute of Arts by Oaxaca and briefly attended University of Minnesota, before withdrawing to focus on her musical career. She soon began performing in the traditional music scene of Oaxaca City.

Her first album, Ofrenda, was released in 1994. In 1999, Downs came to prominence with her debut studio album, La Sandunga, which was a critical and commercial success. She achieved international success in 2001 with the album Border which emerged in the music scene of Mexico and Latin America in the early 2000s (decade). Lila's seventh album, Pecados y Milagros (2011), topped album charts in most major markets and generated chart-topping world music albums. Her eighth album is planned for release in 2014.

Downs began performing in school, demonstrating her vocal ability with traditional music, Latin and American influences, and with her own original twist on dancing. Downs, a native Spanish speaker, also speaks fluent Mixtec and English.[1][2] Downs through her activism has gone through great lengths to preserve the Mixtec language as well as many other Indigenous Mexican languages.

Influenced by Chavela Vargas, Mercedes Sosa, Lucha Villa, and Amparo Ochoa, Lila Downs is recognized for her flamboyant, diverse and outré contributions to the music industry through her traditional and authentic fashion, the majority of which are based around Mexico's indigenous peoples' styles, cultures and heritages, which show through her performances and music videos. Her achievements include one Grammy Awards and two Latin Grammy Awards.

Besides her musical career, she involves herself with humanitarian causes and political activism, especially dealing with issues of Latin America's indigenous.
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Discography -Albums 

Ofrenda (1994)
Azulao: En vivo con Lila Downs (1996)
La Sandunga (Narada 1999)
Tree of Life (Yutu tata) (Narada 2000)
Border (La Línea) (Narada 2001)
One Blood(Una sangre) (Narada 2004)
La Cantina (Narada 2006)
The Very Best Of/El Alma de Lila Downs [CD] (EMI 2008)
Shake Away (Ojo de Culebra) (Manhattan Records 2008)
Lila Downs y La Misteriosa en Paris – Live a FIP [CD (Harmonia Mundi-Global Village Europe/USA; various labels worldwide), (CD + DVD EMI Mexico) (2010)]
Pecados y Milagros (2011)
Balas y Chocolate (2015)
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Lila Downs

''Salon, Lagrimas y Deseo''


On 2015's Latin Grammy-winning Balas y Chocolat, Lila Downs delivered an album of folk songs and originals that juxtaposed modern Mexico with its rich history. It songs highlighted the impact of the drug war, environmental devastation, and the widening rift between economic classes in Mexico. Downs believes an artist's role is not only to create but to be an activist. Salon, Lagrimas y Deseo is in many ways an extension of Balas y Chocolat, though its emphasis is different. Here Downs employs classic and original songs to deliver a feminist manifesto with forms ranging from cumbia to danzon, rancheras to blues, son to banda and conjunto. Set-opener "Urge," by Uriel Martin, is a passionate confession of loneliness and raw pain that only love and affection can assuage. But Downs' women refuse to be conquered by desolation. Her first single is the self-penned "Peligrosa" ("Dangerous") a paean to "Las Adelitas" -- female revolutionaries who dare to live as they wish, accepting the pain, tears, and consequences that are sometimes the cost of freedom. She is accompanied by a rock quartet and a full mariachi orchestra, and delivers the song as a ranchera blues. It's followed by "Tus Pencas," a riotous erotic banda. She covers two gorgeous love songs by Augustin Lara: "Palabras de Mujer" is a bittersweet ballad that reflects on attraction even when it's not what we want, and "Piensa en Mi" is a son that paints commitment as something only women can truly understand. Alvaro Carillo's "La Mentia" is delivered as a jazz ballad by a mariachi band. Downs' vocal combines the phrasing of Dinah Washington and Omara Portuando. Carla Morrison guests on "Ser Paloma," a hybrid of tender ranchera and bittersweet indie rock. Its first verse translates into English as "Not in my dreams, nor at dawn/You do not command, you do not command/Not in my house, not in my life...You do not command...." Downs and Morrison's entwined voices are devastating against the percussion, muted trumpets, and strings. "Son Juarez" is a burning modern son-cum-cumbia performed with Banda Tierra Mojada; it's a tribute to Benito Pablo Juárez García, a Mexican lawyer and politician of Zapotec origin from Oaxaca who served as Mexico's 26th president. He ushered in what is known as La Reforma del Norte. The great Spanish flamenco singer Diego el Cigala joins Downs for Jose Alfredo Jimenez's broken-hearted classic "Un Mundo Raro," made immortal by Chavela Vargas; it's made sadder by the singers resolving to protect their lost love by lying to the world as Downs enhances the song's meaning; in this duet both partners are left, both are bereft -- lost love is a shared tragedy. Downs closes the set with a more swinging reprise of "Peligroso" in duet with Chilean singer/songwriter Mon Laferte underscoring the album's true theme of women as dangerous when they take freedom as their mantle. With Salon, Lagrimas y Deseo, Downs honors traditions from Mexico and throughout Latin America without succumbing to their weight, and stands tall as she does so.
( by Thom Jurek)

Lila Downs - Urge
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 Lila Downs - Palabras de Mujer
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 Lila Downs - Un Mundo Raro 
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 Lila Downs - Seguiré Mi Viaje
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 La peligrosa - Lila Downs
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Lila Downs - El Querreque


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 Lila Downs - Piensa en Mí
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 Lila Downs - Inmortal 
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 Lila Downs - Tus Pencas 
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 Lila Downs - Envidia
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 Lila Downs - El Demagogo 
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Lila Downs La Cantina "Entre copa y copa..." 

00:00 01. La Cumbia Del Mole
04:08 02. El Corrido De Tacha ("La Teibolera")
07:52 03. Agua De Rosas
12:14 04. Tu Recuerdo Y Yo
15:31 05. La Cama De Piedra
19:31 06. El Relámpago
22:38 07. Penas Del Alma
26:07 08. La Tequilera
28:52 09. Pa' Todo El Año
32:13 10. El Centenario
35:16 11. La Noche De Mi Mal
38:00 12. Arboles De La Barranca
40:52 13. La Cumbia Del Mole (Short English Version)
45:02 14. Yo Ya Me Voy
47:47 15. Amarga Navidad
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