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	Lila Downs -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Lila Downs is a (A native of inhabitant of Mexico) Mexican- (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American singer.
		Downs briefly studied singing at the (additional info and facts about University of Minnesota) University of Minnesota.
		Downs is currently based in (additional info and facts about Coyoacán) Coyoacán ((The capital and largest city of Mexico is a political and cultural and commercial and industrial center; one of the world's largest cities) Mexico City).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/lila_downs.htm (180 words)

	Lila Downs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Downs, the daughter of a Scottish-American father and a Mixtec mother, grew up partly in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, partly in the U.S. state of Minnesota.
		Downs briefly studied singing at the University of Minnesota.
		In recent years, Downs and her band have toured widely in Mexico, South America, the US and Europe.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lila_Downs (166 words)

	Lila Downs Exclusive \| Music For America
		But when I listen to the heart-aching voice of Lila Downs, I am suddenly and surprisingly moved by the stories of people I have never met.
		Ethnically rich and hauntingly beautiful, Lila Downs is a complex and diverse artist who weaves the stories of her people into music.
		Lila performed in Tucson a few months ago, and I’ve been trying to get an interview with her ever since.
	www.musicforamerica.org /node/73811 (1601 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Music / Downs, with love
		Downs had released three critically acclaimed albums of jazz and indigenous folk music, but she was by no means a...
		Downs had released three critically acclaimed albums of jazz and indigenous folk music, but she was by no means a mainstream star.
		Downs was cast in the Julie Taymor-directed "Frida" as the singer who provides the sultry song for a famous tango tangle between Salma Hayek and Ashley Judd.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2004/08/06/downs_with_love (548 words)

	Lila Downs Biography ONE BLOOD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		While the concept of identity is an obvious influence on Lila Downs’ latest album, ONE BLOOD (Una Sangre), the Mexican-American singer continues using her creative impulse to explore what brings us together rather than that which divides.
		Downs’ greatest creative asset is her ability to touch the universal by singing about the deeply personal, and there is no greater example than Mother Jones.
		Downs is well aware of these seeming paradoxes; while she explores and shares the history of her people to the world beyond, she knows full well the root of her art – all art, in fact – can only be felt and not exploited.
	www.narada.com /images/ArtistBio/Downs/LilaDownsOneBloodbio.htm (971 words)

	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 teal’s 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.
	www.opendoormanagement.com /liladowns/index.html (1228 words)

	Una Sangre (One Blood) - Lila Downs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		There’s no doubt that singer Lila Downs' profile is on the rise after her appearance in the film Frida and on the accompanying soundtrack, which led to a performance at the 2003 Academy Awards.
		Lila Downs is a Mexican-American vocalist, with a Scottish-American father, and a Mixteca mother.
		Lila is like a fine glass of wine or aged anejo Tequila that resonates with the various nuances and influences of the earth and climate, creating an experience to be savored and to reflect upon.
	www.cdswap.ws /Content/findonamazonus-Asin-B00023GFT0.html (1337 words)

	BBC - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		We saw Lila Downs "live' in OAXACA, Mexico this February, it was one of the best concerts I have ever seen, the vitality and the energy was absolutely amazing, she also gave an impromptu performance on the street the next day and she gives everything to her audience.
		Lila Downs is already on her way to following in the footsteps of Lola Beltram, Chavela Vargas et al, to become another one of the greats of Mexican Music.
		I had the chance to see Lila Downs and her musician performing in Kansas City, and I did find Lila Downs to be less energetic in the stage as she sounds in the albums.
	www0.mh.bbc.co.uk /radio3/awards2005/profile_liladowns.shtml (1113 words)

	Sexy Lila Downs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		I first heard Lila Downs' sultry, smokey voice in the film "Frida." The movie's entire soundtrack is extraordinary, and I still listen to the CD frequently.
		Downs has come out with four albums since then, because I love the passion and soul she puts into her music.
		Lila Downs was born in 1968 to a North American father and a Mixtec Indian mother who earned a living singing in the bars of Mexico City.
	www.sexypopculture.com /pop-culture/artistsearch_Lila%20Downs/mode_music (239 words)

	Lila Downs crosses borders musical, cultural and spiritual (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Lila Downs, the daughter of a Mexican-Indian mother and Scottish-American father who has lived and studied on both sides of the border, uses multiple languages and diverse musical styles to cross cultural barriers and embrace universal themes of humanity.
		Downs spent her childhood and adolescence shuttling between the two countries and cultures.
		Downs, who lives part-time in Coyoacan, the colorful, colonial-style neighborhood in southern Mexico City that Kahlo called home, says the fan mail on her Web site has doubled since the movie, and her music is now being distributed in Mexico.
	www.abcactionnews.com /entertainment/stories/0405/040519downs.shtml (1029 words)

	Lila Downs, Going to the Roots
		Lila Downs was working in her mother’s car parts store in Oaxaca when a migrant worker entered with a piece of paper, he handed it to her and asked for the translation.
		Lila Downs, the daughter of a Scottish American father and Mixtec Indian mother, grew up on both sides of the border, on opposite ends of the spectrum.
		Lila Downs and the band are currently traveling with their music and the voice of the voiceless.
	www.laprensa-sandiego.org /archieve/october04-02/downs.htm (1237 words)

	the digital folklife lila downs
		Lila: He was working on a documentary movie that followed the blue-winged teal – that’s a duck that migrates from Canada – and he went thro Mexico City, and then they went to a club, and he saw my Mom.
		Lila: I was recording this, and I was singing it strongly and I thought, "Wait a minute, this is a little too much." At that point, I wanted it to be a little less powerful, and that’s why I did that.
		For further information about Lila Downs and Paul Cohen, please go to their website, or check with Narada Records, for tour information, reviews of their recordings, and further background.
	www.thedigitalfolklife.org /lila.html (5431 words)

	La Sandunga - Lila Downs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		We hear Lila Downs rich cultural influences of her maternal Mixtec Indian lineage in "La Llorona" and "Sandunga" (more traditional flavored songs), and a more jazzy take on the classic "Besame Mucho" (deriving the more Americanized influences, channeling her fathers side--he is of Scottish ancestry, but born in the United States).
		I first heard Lila Downs distinctive sultry, sassy voice in the film "Frida." The movies entire soundtrack is extraordinary, and I still listen to the CD frequently.
		Lila received formal voice training in Mexico and in the States, and performs her own compositions, as well as tapping into the rich music from Mexicos indigenous peoples.
	www.latinmusiclink.com /La_Sandunga_B0000CABLU.html (711 words)

	Lila Downs performing Friday at Barclay 05/02/02
		Lila Downs, singer, makes her Irvine debut, bringing her band, to close the World Stages Series presented by the Philharmonic Society of Orange County and the Barclay.
		Downs' music not only reflects her European, American, Mexican, American Indian heritage but her likes as well jazz, rhythm 'n' blues, gospel, some contemporary pop, American folk a la Guthrie, Latin, even the blues.
		While she gets her love of her Mexican and Oaxacan cultures from her mother and grandmother, Downs said that she was influenced by her father, a child of a Dust Bowl survivor in the Great Depression, to "seek the truth and accept it.
	irvineworldnews.com /Bstories/may2/lila.html (905 words)

	BBC - World Review - Lila Downs, One Blood/Una Sangre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Lila Downs widened her potential audience when she was featured in Salma Hayek's Frida flick, appearing on its soundtrack.
		Downs is stirring up a potent stew, her Mexican folk stock infused with pinches of dub reggae, Senegalese mbalax and Indian classical sliding.
		Downs succeeds in organising a complicated network of influences into her own distinctive fusion genre.
	www20.thny.bbc.co.uk /music/world/reviews/liladowns_oneblood.shtml (766 words)

	6moons.com - world music: Lila Downs "La Sandunga"
		Concerned he wouldn't find someone to share the recipe with him, he in fact found five ladies, one of whom even sent her daughter to acquire all the ingredients and then sat down with Bayless to write down every detail of the recipe.
		Lila Down's La Sandunga album is exactly such a complex, time-consuming, mouth-watering aural dish of sharply contrasting, bold and piquant flavors.
		Lila Downs manages to wear all these disparate personalities and fill their skins to bursting.
	www.6moons.com /worldmusic/lasandunga.html (383 words)

	HoustonChronicle.com - Downs' 'Una Sangre' born of political strife (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Lila Downs' music brings varied influences to bear, not the least of which stem from her parents.
		Downs reworks the traditional son jarocho La Bamba into an extended, acoustic song with start/stop tempos and violins and ethereal vocals.
		Downs mixes in verses from different versions of the song that originated from the war in Veracruz, the port city Napolean's army invaded in January 1862.
	www.chron.com /cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/entertainment/2696343 (781 words)

	Lila Downs to Perform (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Lila Downs has one of the most spell-binding voices in world music today.
		She forges a bridge between cultures and time with stirring songs and compositions drawn from the folklore and history of her native land in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico.
		Downs unites cultures and boundaries with her extraordinary voice, singing songs in Zupotec, Mixtec, Mayan, Spanish and English, combining her love for her indigenous roots with a strong working class American ethic.
	www.mc3.edu /cr/mc3news/2005/mar/downs.htm (182 words)

	6moons.com - world music:Lila Downs "La Linea \| Border" and "Tree of Life \| Arbor de la Vida"
		She twice performs on screen, once in the bar scene, once besides the heroine who, in her four-posted bed towards the end of her life and also the movie, has been transported into the art gallery hosting her first-ever formal exhibition on Mexican soil.
		Lila's two older albums on Narada prior to Sandunga -- which received an enthusiastic Blue Moon award -- are conceptually distinct and very different from one another.
		Lila's exceptionally well-trained voice easily assumes multiple personalities with very distinct timbres and vibratos that often do not suggest coming from the same throat.
	www.6moons.com /worldmusic/downs.html (611 words)

	321 -> Music, Music, Music: Tree of Life by Lila Downs \| Order now @ 321-music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Lila Downs's sophomore U.S. release sees her take a much more folkloric tack than her debut, delving into the mystical codices of the Mexican Mixtec natives (her ancestry on her mother's side)--not that the entire album is made up of ancestral songs.
		While it is true that Lila fuses foreign influences with indigenous doesn't invalidate it...because Mexico's essence is one of mestizaje (fusion...racial, idiomatic, visual, and musical).
		Downs is willing and able to do more with her voice than I have heard from almost any singer anywhere.
	www.321-music.com /t239814/tree_of_life.html (523 words)

	BBC - Radio 3 Awards for World Music 2003 - Lila Downs
		Born in 1968 to a North American father and a Mixtec Indian mother, she grew up shuttling between Mexico and the U.S. and spent many years grappling with issues of identity and its corollary - vocation.
		With La Linea (2001), Lila turned her attention once again to the subject of the border, singing in English, Spanish and Mayan.
		The pan-American make-up of her band is reflected in novel arrangements for Mexican cumbia, classic ranchera, waltz, bolero and original compositions which experiment with rap, jazz and reggae influences, among others.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/world/awards2003/profile_downs.shtml (406 words)

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		In between television interviews and an evening performance, a Lila Downs raced back to her hotel room in Barcelona to do one of the things she loves most: Talk about music, politics and Mexico.
		The Mexican folk singer is on tour for the next 11 months celebrating the release of her latest album "Una Sangre / One Blood," which was launched in mid-June.
		And according to Downs, the biggest misconceptions of Mexican culture arise from people's ignorance about it.
	entertainment.signonsandiego.com /profile/272352 (353 words)

	Lila Downs, Tree of Life / RootsWorld Recording Review
		Born in Oaxaca, Mexico, her mother's home, Downs finds artistic inspiration in the indigenous traditions of greater Latin America, making her music a compelling cosmopolitan hybrid of indeterminate cultural identity, an organic expression of her own mixed background.
		Downs studied music and anthropology at the University of Minnesota, where her father taught, and at Oaxaca's University of the Arts.
		Lila Downs performs at the Makor Center in New York City on Monday, January 8, 2000, and at the Encino (CA) Community Center on March 24, 2001.
	www.rootsworld.com /reviews/downs-tree.html (590 words)

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	Lila Downs and Caetano Veloso to Perform at 75th Anniversary Academy Awards(R)
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		Lila Downs and Caetano Veloso to Perform at 75th Anniversary Academy Awards
		Beverly Hills, CA - Lila Downs and Caetano Veloso will perform at the 75th Anniversary Academy Awards ceremony, producer Gil Cates announced today.
	www.oscars.org /press/pressreleases/2003/03.03.10.html (156 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Woman's Hour -Lila Downs
		The singer is the child of a Mexican Indian mother and this fact is reflected in her work. She's perhaps best known for her Oscar nominated soundtrack to the film Frida about the life of Frida Kahlo.
		Lila talks to Jenni about the influence of her mother on her politics and music, her new album, and why one of her favourite lyrics accuses a woman of smelling like an Armadillo.
		Lila Downs, Una Sangra (One Blood), Narada Records
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/womanshour/2004_24_thu_01.shtml (107 words)

	NPR : Mexican-American Singer Lila Downs
		She recorded "Burn It Blue" with Brazil's Caetano Veloso for the Grammy-nominated soundtrack and also appeared as a tango singer in the movie.
		But in addition to modern instrumentation and arrangements, Downs has brought a new social awareness to her repertoire of original and native Mesoamerican songs.
		Downs talks to NPR's Michele Norris about her music and performs a few songs from her latest CD, Una Sangre (One Blood).
	www.npr.org /display_pages/features/feature_3107000.html?place%3Dhome02 (226 words)

	houstonpress.com \| Music \| Lila Downs \| 2004-07-01
		Using different languages and musical styles as vehicles, Lila Downs's new album, Una Sangre (One Blood), is an emotional journey undertaken to show us our similarities.
		While cultural exploration is undoubtedly her focus, poetic social commentary and themes of empowerment lie under the rich tapestry of the music.
		In spite of her praiseworthy ideas, the main attraction of Una Sangre is Downs herself.
	www.houstonpress.com /issues/2004-07-01/music/rotation3.html (134 words)

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