| Oaxacan Folk Singer Lila Downs Joins Latin Alternative Music Conference Eve Hyman - Metro | |
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Music video by Lila Downs performing Pecados Y Milagros (LilaDownsVEVO)
The annual Latin Alternative Music Conference (LAMC) is celebrating its fourteenth year bringing artists from throughout the U.S. and Latin America to New York City in a rhythm fiesta like no other in Gotham. Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, and Argentina are some of the countries representing sounds from indie rock and electronica to folklore.
This year LAMC flexes heavy on female talent.
Oaxacan folk singer Lila Downs weaves the indigenous Mixtec language into jazz composition and straddles genres and culture alike. Living between Minnesota and Southern Mexico, Downs performs traditional Mexican rhythms of ranchero and son jarocho alongside rock and hip hop.
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