Lila Downs

Since 1968

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Fri Oct 23 Davis, United States · Mondavi Center Tickets
Sat Oct 24 Mesa, United States · Mesa Arts Center Details
Thu Oct 29 San Diego, United States · Balboa Theatre Tickets
Fri Oct 30 Los Angeles, United States · Walt Disney Concert Hall Tickets
Sun Nov 1 Ciudad De México, Mexico · Auditorio Nacional Tickets
Thu Feb 25 San Pedro Garza García, Mexico · Showcenter Complex Tickets
Thu Mar 4 Vancouver, Canada · The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts Tickets
Sat Mar 6 Portland, United States · Roseland Theater Tickets
Sun Apr 4 Chicago, United States · Chicago Symphony Center Tickets
Sun Apr 18 Flushing, United States · Colden Auditorium at Kupferberg Center for the Arts Tickets
Thu Apr 22 Wien, Austria · Wiener Konzerthaus Tickets
Sat Apr 24 Hamburg, Germany · Elbphilharmonie Hamburg Tickets
Sun Apr 25 Zürich, Switzerland · Kaufleuten Club, Kaufleuten Klub Tickets
Thu Apr 29 London, United Kingdom · Barbican Hall Tickets
Fri Apr 30 Cologne, Germany · Kölner Philharmonie Tickets
Sun May 2 Luxembourg, Luxembourg · Philharmonie Luxembourg Tickets

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Ana Lila Downs Sánchez (born 9 September 1968) is a Mexican singer-songwriter, actress, and anthropologist. She performs her own compositions and the works of others in multiple genres, 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 raised in Oaxaca, she primarily studied at the Institute of Arts by Oaxaca and briefly attended the 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 (independent) 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). Downs's seventh album, Pecados y milagros (2011), topped album charts in most major markets and generated chart-topping world music albums. Her eighth album, "Balas y Chocolate", was released in 2015. "Salón Lágrimas y Deseo", her ninth album, came out in 2017.

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. 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 diverse 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 Award and three 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 population.

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Lila Downs, née le 9 septembre 1968 à Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, est une chanteuse, actrice et anthropologue mexicaine. Elle chante ses propres compositions en mixtèque, en zapotèque, en maya et en nahuatl, mais aussi en espagnol et en anglais. Après avoir émergé sur la scène latino-américaine dans les années 1990, elle connaît un succès international en 2001 grâce au titre La Línea et l'album Border. Célèbre pour ses chansons mélangeant rock et musique du monde, elle est également renommée pour ses talents de danseuse, les chansons La Cumbia del Mole et Zapata se Queda sont ses deux plus grands succès.

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