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Lila Downs: Minnesota
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Lila grew up in the Sierra Madre mountains, down in Mexico's Oaxaca state, then up in Minnesota, USA. She started singing Mariachi at the age of eight, going on to tour with two bands. She now lives in Coyoacan.
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Lila started singing mariachi songs when she was 8. When she turned 14, she started voice lessons in Los Angeles, California, continued voice lessons in Oaxaca city at Bellas Artes, and moved back to Minnesota for college where she studied voice and anthropology at the University of Minnesota.
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After four years in Minnesota, and some “lost” time on the road as a Dead Head, Lila returned to Mexico. She did some singing, worked on a “dig,” which turned up some significant Mixtec codices, and helped out part time in her mother’s auto parts store in Tlaxiaco, the regional capital of the Mixtec highlands.
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