Published video “"Cambias Mi Mundo" ❤️🔥🌎💪🏾”.
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Lila Downs
Ana Lila Downs Sánchez is a Mexican singer-songwriter, actress, and anthropologist. She performs her own compositions and the works of others in multiple genres, as well as tapping into Mexican traditional and popular music. She also incorporates indigenous Mexican influences and has recorded songs in many indigenous languages such as Mixtec, Zapotec, Mayan, Nahuatl and Purépecha. Born and raised…
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Born 9 September 1968 · Q23880
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2026· 22 entries
Published video “Ensayo de la FIFA 2026 🇲🇽⚽️🌎❤️🔥”.
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Public attention spiked: 2,677 Wikipedia readers in one day, 17.6× the usual 153, with 4 article edits. Editors noted: I added her other two major activities to her profile: acting and anthropology
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Downs was among the performers at the opening ceremony of the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Mexico City, which showcased Mexican culture and music prior to the opening match
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Published video “¿Ya escucharon "Mal de Amores"? 💔😉”.
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Published video “"La Pesca" 🐟💙 ¡Ya Disponible en mi nuevo álbum "Cambias Mi Mundo"!”.
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Published video “Cambias Mi Mundo ❤️🔥🌎”.
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Published video “"El Beso" 💋 ❤️🔥🌎 ¡Ya Disponible en mi nuevo álbum "Cambias Mi Mundo"!”.
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Published video “¡Cambias Mi Mundo ya está disponible! Compártenos tus creaciones ☀️🤍”.
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Published video “Lila Downs "El Beso" Afterparty”.
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Published video “Lila Downs - El Beso (Red Carpet)”.
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Published video “Lila Downs, Leonel García - Amo-Te (Video Oficial)”.
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Published video “Lila Downs - El Beso (Video Oficial)”.
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Published video “Lila Downs - La Pochota (Cover Audio)”.
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Published video “Lila Downs - El Olivo y el Maguey (Cover Audio)”.
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Published video “Lila Downs - Tu Falso Amor (Cover Audio)”.
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Published video “Lila Downs - Mal de Amores (Cover Audio)”.
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Published video “Lila Downs - La Pesca (Cover Audio)”.
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Released album “Cambias mi mundo”.
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Published video “Lila Downs, Alex Cuba - El Jardín del Placer (Cover Audio)”.
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Published video “Lila Downs, Alex Cuba - El Jardín del Placer (Video Oficial)”.
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Published video “Lila Downs - Tumba 7 (Video Oficial)”.
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2024· 1 entry
Released ep “Raíz nunca me fui”.
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2023· 1 entry
Released album “La Sánchez”.
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2022· 2 entries
Released album “Desde Bellas Artes México”.
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Lila Downs performed in Geneva, Switzerland at the festival Musiques en été
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2019· 2 entries
Awarded Leading Ladies of Entertainment (2019).
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Released album “Al chile”.
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2018· 1 entry
“Lila Downs Reminds Us of the Strength Women Bring to Latin America and its History”
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2017· 3 entries
Awarded Latin Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Pop Vocal Album (2017).
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Downs released Salón, Lágrimas y Deseo, under Sony Music Mexico/Latin
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Released album “Salón, lágrimas y deseo”.
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2016· 1 entry
Will be in London, Spain, Argentina and Peru
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2015· 3 entries
Released album “Balas y chocolate”.
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Lila Downs joined the judging panel for The 14th Annual Independent Music Awards and by doing so, helped to assist the careers of upcoming independent artists
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Spain has toured with great success (Cartagena, Barcelona, Valencia, Madrid etc
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2014· 2 entries
Released album “Raíz”.
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Soledad released Raíz, a collaborative album featuring Lila Downs and Spanish artist Niña Pastori, and received a nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album and the Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year, w
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2013· 1 entry
Collaborated on the album "Ciudadana del mundo vol
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2012· 2 entries
Released album “Canciones pa’ todo el año”.
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Collaborated on Kevin Johansen's album Bi with the song "Baja a la tierra", and on the album "Mujer Divina" from the Mexican singer Natalia Lafourcade on the song "La fugitiva"
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2011· 3 entries
Released album “Pecados y milagros”.
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Through the official website of the singer
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“Q&A: Lila Downs, A Sin and A Miracle”
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2010· 4 entries
In Square Dance by Oaxaca City where she had an audience of approximately seven thousand people
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In Spain and France, the album was recorded in 2009 in Radio France studio 105 in Paris, France
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Released album “En París – Live à FIP”.
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Lila Downs sang a duet with the Mexican singer-songwriter Benny Ibarra ("Calaveras"), on his album The March of the Living
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2009· 3 entries
Giving a free concert in the Zocalo of Mexico City, followed by Colombia and Costa Rica, with three concerts each
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Downs, along with actress Salma Hayek represented Mexico in an event for the worldwide campaign of the One Drop foundation, to preserve water
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Participated on the album of Basque singer Kepa Junkera, where she performs "Haurtxo Polita" in Euskara
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2008· 3 entries
Released album “Shake Away / Ojo de culebra”.
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On the Los Cojolites album No Tiene Fin, she sang on the song "La Herlinda" and "El Pescador" of the album Sin Fecha de Caducidad by the Mexican singer Celso Piña
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Released album “The Very Best Of: El alma de Lila Downs”.
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2007· 2 entries
Collaborated with the Argentinean band Los Calzones Rotos on the album Tanguito on the song "Loco"
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Downs published a CD with the greatest success in Spanish to date, containing songs from her previous albums La Sandunga, Tree of Life, Border/The Line, One Blood and La Cantina
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2006· 3 entries
Released ep “Live Session”.
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Released album “La cantina: “Entre copa y copa…””.
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Collaborated on the Brian Lynch and Eddie Palmieri album Simpático on the song "Que sería la vida" with Brian Lynch
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2005· 3 entries
Collaborated with the Galician band Luar Na Lubre on the album Saudade on the song "Domingo Ferreiro" performed in Galician
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Lila Downs received the Grammy Latino in the category of "Best Album of World Music" for this album and reached the top of the charts in United States, Mexico, Spain, United Kingdom, Germany and France
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Participated in the soundtrack for the film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada with the song "Dónde estás papá"
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2004· 1 entry
Collaborated with the Afghan singer Kulsoom Syed Ghulam on the album Lullabies from the Axis of Evil on the song "Lalolalo (Don't you Worry My Child)"
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2003· 2 entries
Released album “Una sangre: One Blood”.
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Was invited to the Twelve Girls Band concert in Shanghai, China, where she sang in French, Italian and English: Habanera from the opera Carmen, "Signore, ascolta
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2001· 4 entries
Released album “Border: La línea”.
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Was the first album by Downs to feature songs sung in English
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Downs was invited to participate in the soundtrack of the Mexican film Piedras Verdes where she performed "Cancion mixteca", in 2002 she participated in the soundtrack for the film Frida singing the song "Burn It Blue" w
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With the album Border which emerged in the music scene of Mexico and Latin America in the early 2000s (decade)
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2000· 1 entry
Released album “Tree of Life: Árbol de la vida – Yutu tata”.
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1999· 2 entries
Released album “La sandunga”.
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Downs came to prominence with her debut studio album, La sandunga, which was a critical and commercial success
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “Trazos”.
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1997· 1 entry
Lila Downs made a second recording, called "Traces", on which she performed material that was to be included in later albums such as La Sandunga, Tree of Life and Border
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1996· 2 entries
Released album “Azuláo: En vivo con Lila Downs”.
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Downs recorded a live session at a renowned café-bar of the City of Oaxaca
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1994· 2 entries
Released album “Ofrenda”.
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Lila Downs independently made her first album, entitled Ofrenda
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1968· 1 entry
Born 1968-09-09.
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