LILA DOWNS IN TEATRO CERVANTES MALAGA

On the 10th of March at 21.00 hours, the singer Lila Downs will act in the Theatre Cervantes in Malaga. Lila Downs returned with Ojo de culebra, one of her records that is most open to fusion, including genres ranging from cumbia, ranchera, reggae and pop to rock, blues, gypsy music, through versions of Southern US classics such as Black magic woman, Peter Green’s classic made popular by Santana in the 70s, or Lucinda Williams’ I envy the wind.

In Ojo de culebra there is also a combination of popular and electric instruments wrapping festive, dense, light, contemplative and danceable songs with lyrics about women who take risks, nature, food, the paradoxes of life or current affairs such as immigration, political justice or the transformation of society.

With Ojo de culebra, which has coincided with the process of overcoming a very deep life crisis which even led her to lose her voice, and for which the help of a famous Oaxaca curandera (healer) was decisive (that is why the record is a tribute to the shamans and healers of Mexico), she once again shows that for her music is a path in search of internal peace, to feel less pain, return pride to the downtrodden indigenous cultures and help change consciences.
Lila Downs (born 1968 in Tlaxiaco is a Mxican / US Americn singer. She performs her own compositions as well as tapping into native Mesoamercan music of the Mixtec Zapotec, Maya and Nahuatl cultures.



Downs is the daughter of Mixtec cabaret singer Anita Sánchez and Allen Downs, a Scottis /English- American teacher of art and cinematographer. She grew up partly in the Oaxaca.

She later returned to Mexico where she learned to weave. Later, she began singing in the club scenes of Oaxaca and Philadelphia along with Paul Cohen, an American-born saxophonist. They began collaborating together on songs that would slowly evolve into Downs's subsequent recordings. Cohen went on to become both Downs' husband and her artistic director.

In recent years, Downs and her band have toured widely in Mexico, South America, the US and Europr. 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 the Best Song” and that she performed at the 75th Academy Awards. Other songs that she performed on the soundtrack are "Benediction and Dream," "Estrella Oscura," and "La Llorona." Other movies with a Lila Downs song are “Tortilla Soup”, “ Real Women have a Curves” and “Fados” by Carlos Saura. She was also invited to the “ Twelve Girls Band´s's concert in Shanghai, Downs is currently based in Coyoacán (Mexico)

For more info:
Calle Ramos Marín S/N, 29012 Malaga‎ -
www.teatrocervantes.com