In Una Sangre One Blood was released, followed by 's La Cantina, whose song "La Cumbia del Mole" presented the singer with the opportunity to make her first-ever music video. Her seventh studio album, Pecados y Milagros, arrived a year later and won both Grammy and Latin Grammy awards. The same year she performed at the 75th Annual Academy Awards. Its video showcased the impact of the drug war and environmental devastation caused by the policies of the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement NAFTA and the rampant consumerism that created a widening rift among the economic classes in her native land.
She followed it a week later with the release of Balas y Chocolate, a collection of originals and covers that articulated and extrapolated on these themes in folk ballads and party songs, and also juxtaposed modern Mexico with its history. Upon release it was certified gold, was featured on several publications' year-end lists, and won a Latin Grammy for Best Folk Album.
After touring the globe, Downs, who had been writing while touring, began crafting a record that used banda to launch into ranchera, bolero, blues, and soul.
She wrote six new songs, including "Peligrosa," a manifesto and anthem for those she sainted as "dangerous women. Two years later she dropped Al Chile, an anthropological and sociological celebration of the chili pepper and its role in Latin culture. Beastie Boys. Wereldmuziek - Released by Capitol Latin on 1 jan. Having spent her younger years bouncing around between Mexico and Minnesota -- her mother was a Mixtec Indian who sang cabaret and her father an Ameri Wereldmuziek - Released by Narada on 1 jan.
Downs' remarkable voice has been compared to both Cesaria Evora and Susana Baca, combining operatic training and jazz chops, while maintaining her Mix On 's Latin Grammy-winning Balas y Chocolat, Lila Downs delivered an album of folk songs and originals that juxtaposed modern Mexico with its rich Jazz - Released by Capitol Records on 3 jul.
Lila Downs' second release for Narada World reflects her continuing fascination with Mexican-American border culture. Considering her own mixed herita Wereldmuziek - Released by Columbia on 18 okt. Latijns-Amerika - Released by Columbia on 3 mei Wereldmuziek - Released by Columbia on 25 jun. Folk - Released by Narada on 1 mei Wereldmuziek - Released by Manhattan Records on 1 jan. Lila Downs' Shake Away is easily the most polished and refined release since she released Ofrenda in By turns, it is also the most ambitious.
Wereldmuziek - Released by Columbia on 11 okt. Wereldmuziek - Released by Columbia on 21 okt. Categories: All Back. Cart 0 Your cart is empty. She also studied opera and married a jazz pianist, all of which allowed her to expand her sound -- a Lila Downs album might incorporate reggae, soul, rock, and jazz as well as acoustic Mexican folk, all of it seamlessly fused into something completely her own.
All of Downs ' albums have been worthwhile, but for someone not familiar with them, or just looking for a tidy summation, this compilation is the place to start. The 18 tracks are drawn from Downs ' previous releases spanning 's La Sandunga through 's La Cantina , and the non-chronological sequencing makes it a cohesive listening experience that samples the best of what this powerful vocalist has released thus far.
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