Lila Downs

Lila Downs
Lila Downs in Oaxaca, Mexico at the concert Soul of Mexico in 2009.
Background information
Birth name	Ana Lila Downs Sánchez
Born	(1968-09-09) 9 September 1968
Oreigin	Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, Mexico
Genres	Warld muisic
Instruments	Voice, guitar
Years active	1990–present
Labels	Sony Music, Columbia
Wabsteid	liladowns.com

Ana Lila Downs Sánchez, best kent as Lila Downs (born 9 September 1968) is a Mexican sangseer-sangwriter. She performs her awn compositions as well as tappin intae Mexican tradeetional an popular muisic. She incorporates indigenous Mexican influences an haes recordit sangs in indigenous leids such as Mixtec, Zapotec, Mayan, Nahuatl an P'urhépecha an aw.

Her debut album, La Sandunga, wis released in 1999. She achievit internaitional success in 2001 wi the album Border which emergit in the muisic scene o Mexico an Laitin Americae in the early 2000s (decade). Douns began performin in schuil, demonstratin her vocal ability wi tradeetional muisic, Laitin an American influences, an wi her awn oreeginal twist on dancin. Downs is a native Spainyie speaker, an speaks fluent Inglis an Mixtec an aw.

Discografie

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)

DVD

• Lotería Cantada (2006)
• The Very Best Of/El Alma de Lila Downs [CD+DVD] (EMI 2008)

Freemit airtins

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