# Lila Downs

> She sings in Mixtec, Zapotec, Mayan, Nahuatl, Purépecha - languages most radio never touches - and somehow that became the bridge to international success. Lila Downs didn't translate Mexico's indigenous music for export; she made the world meet it where it stands.

*Mexican American singer-songwriter*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/lila-downs

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Singer / Musician ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220))
- **Category:** Musicians
- **Country:** Mexico
- **Born:** 1968-09-09
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Born 9 September 1968 in Oaxaca, Ana Lila Downs Sánchez studied at the Institute of Arts by Oaxaca and briefly attended the University of Minnesota before leaving to perform in Oaxaca City's traditional music scene. Her independent debut Ofrenda arrived in 1994; prominence came five years later with La sandunga, then international reach in 2001 with Border. By 2011 Pecados y milagros was topping charts across major markets, followed by Balas y Chocolate in 2015 and Salón Lágrimas y Deseo in 2017. Fluent in Spanish, Mixtec, and English, she's spent years working to preserve Indigenous Mexican languages through activism and performance. She's collected one Grammy and three Latin Grammys, wore the traditional dress of Mexico's indigenous peoples as stage armor, and built a career that treats Chavela Vargas and Mercedes Sosa as the blueprint rather than the past.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 78.1 / 100
- **Momentum:** 2.1 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 24.5 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 8.2 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 95.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 90.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #33
- **Total followers across platforms:** 174,000

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/liladowns (@liladowns)
- **INSTAGRAM**: https://www.instagram.com/liladowns/ (@liladowns)
- **FACEBOOK**: https://www.facebook.com/LilaDownsOficial (@LilaDownsOficial)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1105038/ (@nm1105038)
- **SPOTIFY**: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3mXI2gpwWnNO9qbQG3n3EP (@3mXI2gpwWnNO9qbQG3n3EP)
- **WEBSITE**: https://www.liladowns.com/
- **YOUTUBE**: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrV2lNMrGwTeqdRTBPD2VnQ (@@liladownsvevo, 174,000 followers)

## Sources
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- [Даунс, Лила](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BD%D1%81%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B0)
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- [Ліля Даўнс](https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8F_%D0%94%D0%B0%D1%9E%D0%BD%D1%81)
- [Ліла Даўнс](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%96%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%94%D0%B0%D1%9E%D0%BD%D1%81)
- [Лила Даунс](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%94%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BD%D1%81)
- [लीला डाउन्ज़](https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BC)
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- [লীলা দাঅন্স](https://bpy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B8)
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- [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lila_Downs)
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- [MusicBrainz](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ad29ae1c-2eda-4071-9dc8-31910e7e546c)
- [Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/artist/372421)

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