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لیلا داونز

Mexican American singer-songwriter

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Lila Downs is a Mexican American singer-songwriter known for blending traditional Mexican music with contemporary styles. Her work is significant for bringing Mexican cultural music and indigenous languages to international audiences while addressing social and political themes.

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Oaxaca, Mexico

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 Purépecha. Born and…

Known for

Santuarios del Infinito — Narrator (voice)2023
Trece Cielos: Una Noche para Ponernos al Día — Self2023
Ven Acá... con Eugenia León y Pavel Granados — Self2023
Lila Downs en el #50FIC — Self2022
Lila Downs - Desde Bellas Artes México — Lila Downs2022
Tengo un Sueño 2022 — Self2022
Léemelo — Self2022
A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings — Self2021
Latin Grammy Celebrates: Them and Their Music — Self - Performer2021
El Grito: Lila Downs at the Macedonio Alcalá Theater, with the Alejandro Díaz Orchestra and the Costumbrista Dance Company — Herself2020

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Female
Origin: Mexico
Active from: 1968

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Discography

Ofrenda1994
Azuláo: En vivo con Lila Downs1996
Trazos1998
La sandunga1999
Tree of Life: Árbol de la vida – Yutu tata2000
Border: La línea2001
Una sangre: One Blood2003
La cantina: “Entre copa y copa…”2006
Live Session2006
Shake Away / Ojo de culebra2008

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 226,677
Total plays: 3,407,544

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Lila Downs (born Ana Lila Downs Sánchez on 9 September 1969 in Tlaxiaco) is a Mexican singer and actress. She performs her own compositions and the works of others in multiple genres, as well as tapping into Mexican traditional and popular music. Downs grew up there and in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She began singing ranchera music at an early age, and later sang at the fiestas of the towns in her mountain region, la Mixteca. She sang with the band Los Cadetes de Yodoyuxi and later with La Trova Serrana <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Lila+Downs">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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