Sunday, June 22, 2008

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Victrolita The Corner - Lila Downs


This new section of Cultural MDA is something like a musical gourmet, a sommelier in treble clef or international chef performers and musical formats taste totally absent in the mass media.

This space is not restricted only to folklore, but on the contrary, those elected have to do with studs, projections, mergers and other experiences sound / music suffered mostly unknown to FM listeners, giving their private ears enjoyment and choice.


VICTROLITA MENTION THIS WEEK:
Lila Downs
Lila Downs is a Mexican singer. Songwriter and singer specializing in Mexican music and Mexican peoples in addition to the regional music of Mexico, particularly Oaxaca, a place that we remember teachers moved by the fierce struggle that our Mexican colleagues there held a couple of years.
Lila is the daughter of Mexican cabaret singer and a professor of Scottish-American film. Spent part of his life in his birthplace, and in California and Minnesota.
earned a degree in voice and anthropology and then performed similar studies in the School of Fine Arts of Oaxaca.
His connection with an American saxophonist Paul Cohen, would help in her albums until time would be married and its artistic director since then.
collaborated on the soundtrack of the film Frida , nominated for Academy Awards, where among other with the interpretation of the main theme with Caetano Veloso and counterpoint to versions of "La Llorona" with Chavela Vargas.
Cultural MDA recommends:
  • Canteen
  • Tree of Life
  • Banda sound of "Frida" and the film , logradísima biography of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, which can be seen singing in mariachis Lila ...
His works, mostly in Castilian, including some versions of Mexican music in English and, repeatedly, in indigenous languages \u200b\u200bof their country.
A jewel to secure and retain ...
on YouTube:

  • "Paloma negra" Http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=WS_BpR4KZfM&feature=related

SCORE: 10 victrolitas

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