Lila Downs (born 1968 in Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca) is a Mexican singer. She performs her own compositions as well as tapping into native Mesoamerican music of the Mixtec, Zapotec, Maya and Nahuatl cultures. Downs is the daughter of Mixtec cabaret singer Anita Sánchez and Allen Downs, a Scottish/English-American[LINK: http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:iMsU5f8CpCQJ:www.latinstylemag.com/Article.cfm%3FID%3D69+%22Paul+Cohen%22+%22Lila+Downs%22+married&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4] Lila Downs - La Conjugadora. Retrieved on February 17 from google.com professor of art and cinematographer from Minnesota. She grew up partly in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, partly in the U.S. state of California as a teen, and Minnesota as an adult where she graduated from the University of Minnesota in voice and anthropology [LINK: http://aztlan.net/lila.htm] Lila Downs: With a song in her soul Retr

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