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LILA DOWNS - vocals, percussion
PAUL COHEN - tenor saxophone, clarinet •
DANA LEONG - trombone
JUAN HERRERA - guitar • EDGARDO SERKA - drums, percussion
CARLOS HENDERSON - bass •
ROBERT CURTO - accordion
SAMUEL TORRES - percussion
KARINA CARTER - video engineer • MIRIAM CROWE - lighting engineer
Born in 1968 in Mexico, as a daughter of Mixtec cabaret singer Anita Sanchez and Allen Downs, an American professor of art and cinematographer from Minnesota, Lila Downs grew up partly in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, partly in California as a teen, and Minneapolis as an adult. She studied voice and social anthropology at the University of Minnesota. With a double degree and a renewed enthusiasm for both her Mexican heritage and singing, settling in her mother’s hometown of Oaxaca, she began vocalizing again, and exploring her roots. She met up with Philadelphia-based jazz pianist Paul Cohen, and the pair began a professional and personal relationship. Cohen went on to become both Downs’s husband and her artistic director. Along with jazz, she was slowly developing a more intense, folkloric style that began to rear its head on 1997's “La Sandunga”. That vocal promise was fulfilled in 2000 with the release of “Tree of Life”, the lyrics of which were largely derived from the religious codices of the Mixteca and Zapotec people. The next year, Downs issued “Border (La Linea)”. In 2004 “Una Sangre (One Blood)” was released, followed by 2006's “La Cantina”. 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” in a song “Burn it Blue”, that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song and that she performed at the 75th Academy Awards. Downs is currently based in Coyoacan, a borough of Mexico City.
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28 мај 2009,
Универзална сала,
21:00 –
May 28th 2009, Universal
Hall, 21:00 |
