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| | Lila Downs - Open Door Management |
 | | Lila Downs grew up in the Sierra Madre mountains of southern Mexico, in the state of Oaxaca, and also in Minnesota in the U.S.A. Daughter of a Scottish- American cinematographer/painter, who came to Mexico originally to make a documentary about the blue-winged teals annual migration from Canada to the Yucatan Peninsula. |
 | | Lila was to become an opera singer, when she became disenchanted with the music department,in Minnesota, dropped out, followed the "Greatful Dead" for a while, sold jewelry on the streets, and moved back to the mountains of Oaxaca where she learned to weave cloth. |
 | | Lila Downs combines formal vocal training in the Minnesota university setting of her father with study in Oaxaca, Mexico, tapping the indigenous Mixtec traditions of her mother. |
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