Lila Downs 2015 at Auditorio Banamex

Once again the international Oaxacan interpreter returns to the city to delight their audience with their classic hits also include songs from his new album.

Lila Downs US tour to present his latest album Bullets and Chocolate, promising to reach many more cities than in previous tours, then it will in our country, and certainly in our city. Topics in this, their ninth studio album, make a fitting tribute to our dead, magical celebration in Mexico and some Latin American countries. Festive show, rich sounds, colors and flavors.

More "BULLETS AND CHOCOLATE"

Since beginning his career as a songwriter, almost two decades ago, Lila Downs has appeared as a banner of the culture of our country and Latin America. Your search has to do with the pre-Hispanic past and modernity. Over the years, Lila Downs has adopted and been adopted by other Latin American nations, the United States, Europe and even Asia who, like us, see her as a woman, honest, courageous, fair and use their song as a vehicle to justice, tradition, reality and utopia of entire peoples. "Bullets and Chocolate" is a deeper look at the events of society in Latin America, to that on the one hand living moments of crisis, deprivation, social complications, power and disillusionment, however, always it remains alive, hopefully, always with dreams and ideals that flags are hoisted as well as traditions that feed the soul with its abundance, color, smell and taste.



"Bullets and Chocolate is an allusion to the bittersweet times we live: on the one hand, the violence but then the excesses and pleasure represented by cocoa, food of the gods, fruit that lasts and symbolizes our strength as a nation," says Lila Downs.
The album "Bullets and Chocolate" is dedicated to the Day of the Dead reflecting how Mexicans, and some Latin Americans conceived the starting of the underworld with grace, joy, folklore, even mischievously. Freedom, tradition, Justice, Equality, Love, Passion, Truth (with a capital) are the branches that connect to the death, central theme of this album and are magnificently portrayed by Lila Downs.

"The music on this album celebrates the dead as is the tradition: they dance, they sing, is taken, it is provided with the deceased. a bolero, a northern, a cumbia, hip hop and ska is sung and as a result we have a danceable, melancholic and joyful drive as well as is the custom of mourn and celebrate at the same time, because the Mexicans have the tradition of writing verses on death laughing and enjoying ... "

In a very appropriate month, Lila Downs presents new account before his royal audience on Saturday September 5 at 21:00 at Auditorio Banamex, Bullets and Chocolate bringing to this city that has always welcomed with open arms.