The second event of Music Week brings us one of the most influential voices in contemporary Latin American music: Lila Downs.

The “Mixtec Queen” joins the series “This Is How Songs Are Born” just as she releases “Cambias mi mundo”, a single with rapper Snow Tha Product that not only previews her upcoming self‑titled album but also marks a turning point in her career.

A Grammy and multiple Latin Grammy winner, she will be in our auditorium in conversation with Fernando Neira, music critic at El País and Cadena SER, with whom she will explore the origins of her songs… and, of course, bring them to the stage in an unmissable live performance.

• Wednesday, 17 June at 19:30 hours

• In‑person attendance until full capacity is reached

• Streaming available. Follow it on AC’s YouTube channel

About Lila Downs

Lila Downs was born in 1968 in Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. She grew up between the mountains of the Sierra Madre (Oaxaca) and Minnesota (USA). She began her musical career at the age of eight, performing mariachi songs. She studied vocal performance in Los Angeles and Fine Arts at an academy in Oaxaca. Later, she moved to Minnesota, where she completed her vocal studies and earned a degree in Anthropology.

Her first musical successes came with the bands Los Cadetes de Yodoyuxi, a percussion group, and La Trova Serrana, gaining growing popularity among the Latino audience in the United States with songs about the Zapotec community and its cultural values.

Celebrated for preserving the sounds of her homeland, Lila Downs’s music and message reached a wider audience after winning the Latin Grammy for Best Folk Album with One Blood (Una Sangre) (2004) and through her appearance in Frida (2002), the film about the life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo starring Salma Hayek.

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