Lila Downs

Lila Downs is a Mexican-American singer. She performs her own compositions as well as tapping into native Mesoamerican music of the Mixtec, Zapotec, Maya and Nahuatl cultures.

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Downs, the daughter of a Scottish-American father and a Mixtec mother, grew up partly in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, partly in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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Downs briefly studied singing at the University of Minnesota. She dropped out and returned to Mexico where she learned to weave. Later, she began singing in the club scenes of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, and Philadelphia along with Paul Cohen, an expatriate saxophonist. They began collaborating together on songs that would slowly evolve into Downs's subsequent recordings.

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In recent years, Downs and her band have toured widely in Mexico, South America, the US and Europe. She was also heard in the soundtrack to the movie Frida. Downs is currently based in Coyoac?n (Mexico City).

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Lila Downs related Images and Photos (experimental)

Hortensia Lila	Lila Lee - Motion Picture Classic Magazine Cover 1920's	Dexter First Edition Lila Silk-Screen Print	Heaven Rises Him Who Can Downs Him (Yu Chigong)
The Acrobats' Camp Epsom Downs	Onset of Fall at Crystal Downs	Morning Fog Hangs over the Downs	Adam Had Four Sons Ingrid Bergman Warner Baxter Johnny Downs Richard Denning Robert Shaw 1941
Figure on a Pathway Leading Up a Hill in the South Downs Near Lewes Sussex England UK