Lila Downs

Person · Open Library

Works

2

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Film & TV

Acting · Oaxaca, Mexico

Ana Lila Downs Sánchez, best known as Lila Downs (born September 9, 1968), is an American–Mexican singer-songwriter and actress. She performs her own compositions 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…

Known for

• Santuarios del Infinito — Narrator (voice)2023
• Trece Cielos: Una Noche para Ponernos al Día — Self2023
• Ven Acá... con Eugenia León y Pavel Granados — Self2023
• Lila Downs en el #50FIC — Self2022
• Lila Downs - Desde Bellas Artes México — Lila Downs2022
• Tengo un Sueño 2022 — Self2022
• Léemelo — Self2022
• A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings — Self2021
• Latin Grammy Celebrates: Them and Their Music — Self - Performer2021
• El Grito: Lila Downs at the Macedonio Alcalá Theater, with the Alejandro Díaz Orchestra and the Costumbrista Dance Company — Herself2020

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

Mexico

Active from

1968

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

226,677

Total plays

3,407,544

Lila Downs (born Ana Lila Downs Sánchez on 9 September 1969 in Tlaxiaco) is a Mexican singer and actress. She performs her own compositions and the works of others in multiple genres, as well as tapping into Mexican traditional and popular music. Downs grew up there and in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She began singing ranchera music at an early age, and later sang at the fiestas of the towns in her mountain region, la Mixteca. She sang with the band Los Cadetes de Yodoyuxi and later with La Trova Serrana <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Lila+Downs">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The feasibility of creating a checklist for the assessment of the methodological quality both of randomised and non-randomised studies of health care interventions.

   · 1998 · cited 6,795x

2. Primary Prevention of Acute Coronary Events With Lovastatin in Men and Women With Average Cholesterol Levels

   · 1998 · cited 3,973x

3. FinnGen provides genetic insights from a well-phenotyped isolated population

   · 2023 · cited 3,767x

4. BAY 43-9006 Exhibits Broad Spectrum Oral Antitumor Activity and Targets the RAF/MEK/ERK Pathway and Receptor Tyrosine Kinases Involved in Tumor Progression and Angiogenesis

   · 2004 · cited 3,373x

5. Progress in Development of the Index of ADL

   · 1970 · cited 3,222x

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Quotes

• “The border still doesn't make much sense in my mind. It's a place that has so many things going on, a lot of sad stories, a lot of positive ones, a lot of people who are looking to break the rules and I identify a lot with that. I like to break the rules.”
• “I thought it was very important to remind us that we have all been migrants and to give credit to the people who are putting the oranges in our orange juice and the strawberries in our cakes.”
• “We [as Latinxs] got to be there representing, explaining, and translating…It’s the only way we are going to have people come together.”
• “I think that I have influenced several generations of performers in Mexico. I’m proud of that because it isn’t easy in these scenes. But then it is easy because it’s what you love to do, and it’s your passion. Even in your down times, you are always accompanied by your music.”
• “I consider myself a border person, even though I grew up in the south of Mexico and very north of the U.S., in Minneapolis. I hold many of the same realities with the people who have grown up around these borders. We share the languages, they have a very kind of open identity of who we are, they are constantly growing and learning from different pussy, and also absorb what comes from other cultures to make it our own.”
• “When I was in college, I wanted to know more about my Native American past because I come from one of the 64 Native groups that are very much alive [in Mexico]. But there was nothing like that. So I ended up designing my own major that included women’s studies, philosophy, and anthropology.”

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