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"Exotic beauty and startling voice...Lila Downs is a reflection of a 21st century world culture where ethnicity and national boundaries blur."
     - Los Angeles Times

"One of the most spellbinding voices to grace the world music scene."
     - Billboard ®

Lila Downs is an artist who reflects through her music the most personal and deep side of the Mexican and Mixtec traditions.  Her intense performances and provocative lyrics have captivated audiences around the world and made her a legend in her native Mexico.  Transformed by the lyrics she sings, Downs penetrates the soul and the mind as she retells the often bittersweet stories of her ancestors and homeland.  She is an artistic phenomenon to be experienced, a world music diva in the making.

Her new album, BORDER, forges a bridge between cultures and time.  It's a collection of stirring songs inspired by border life, the plight of migrant workers, and the hardships endured by indigenous peoples.  Accompanied by pre-Colombian and Mexican folk instruments, Downs infuses jazz, gospel, and hip hop influences into traditional cumbias, creating powerful music in any language.

BORDER is dedicated to the Mexican migrants, to the spirits of those who have died crossing the line.

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Lila Downs may be seen and heard in the film FRIDA starring Salma Hayek. Lila plays a character and performs several songs.  Visit the FRIDA website for soundclips of the soundtrack, which won an Academy Award for BEST ORIGINAL SCORE.
 

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Reviews of BORDER and Lila on the web...

- On Terra.com, a wonderful review and videos!!

- From England, "The Independent" with an in-depth story.

           -  Amazing review on CDNOW! of BORDER

           - BORDER review on AMAZON.COM

- Featured artist on World Music Village.com

- BILLBOARD magazine has a great review of BORDER - check it out! 

- For the Cox News Review of the new album BORDER, click here !

- Visit Global Village for a review of Lila Downs and BORDER.  You'll need to scroll down the page a ways.

- And THE NEWS MEXICO.COM has a terrific review of Lila and BORDER.

- Spanish  Review  of BORDER and photos of Lila  in El FOCO

- BORDER Review in Spanish on UNOMÁSUNO 

- THE PHOENIX.COM, Boston's Alternative News  Source, reviews BORDER

- Reviews of BORDER, TREE OF LIFE, LA SANDUNGA written by Stan Gotlieb at Real Oaxaca.Com

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Also available from Lila Downs ~
 

La Cantina Cover One Blood cover   La Sandunga cover   Tree Of Life cover    

 

   
Visit Lila's official website www.liladowns.com  in Spanish, French, and English.  Also developing a German language version.

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1 Mi Corazón Me Recuerda
headphones 2 El Feo
3 Sale Sobrando
headphones 4 Corazoncito Tirano
headphones 5 La Niña
6 Hanal Weech
7 Medley: Pastures of Plenty/This Land is Your Land/Land
8 La Línea
9 El Bracero Fracasado
10 Tránsito
11 Smoke (Acteal)
12 La Martiniana
13 Soy Pescador
14 La Llorona
headphones 15 Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps ~ bonus track
Artists and Instrumentation

Lila Downs - voice, guiro, spoons
Celso Duarte - harp, violin, guitar
Chuco Mendoza - electric bass
Paul Cohen - tenor sax, keyboard, and clarinet
Carlos 'Poppis' Tovar - congas, bongos, guiro, ocarina, coyollis, turtle shell, and voice
Carlos 'Pelusa' Rivarola - cajón, djembé, turtle shell

Guest Musicians

Ken Basman - electric guitar
Gabriel Hernández - piano
Agustin Bernal - acoustic bass
Alfredo Pino - trumpet
Aneiro Taño - fender rhodes piano
Omar Aran - drums
Memo Diaz - chorus
Rodrigo Duarte - cello

 

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