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Lila Downs: Music
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Lila Downs’ sultry and exotic world vocals have captivated sold-out audiences at the Sacred Music Festival at the Hollywood Bowl, the World’s Fair in Lisbon, and throughout France and Mexico. Quickly becoming an artistic phenomenon, she is now ready to take the world by storm.
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Lila Downs is often referred to as the “singing Frida Kahlo”. In fact, she does bear a superficial resemblance to Mexico’s most famous woman: her striking face is framed by long black braids, while her clothing recalls colourful Indian garb and her neck and fingers are adorned with silver and precious stones. Thus she makes tradition socially acceptable, even raising it to the level of avant-garde, just as her music fuses tradition and modernity.
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Last month, Lila Downs teamed up with famous Mexican musicians Eugenia León and Celso Piña to raise much needed money for the Guadalupe Musalem Scholarship Fund. The organiser Casa de la Mujer said it was a great success, 7000 people attended, but despite the record-breaking numbers they had not raised as much as they hoped to.
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Lila Downs admits she is surprised her music has become internationally successful. After all, much of what she sings is in Spanish, it speaks of the pride and plight of the Mexican and Indian communities, it can be politically flinty, and she has even managed to alienate folk purists by mixing in rock guitars, hip-hop, jazz and reggae influences.
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