One Liner: Mexican pop rock lady
Wikipedia Genre: Pop rock, Latin rock, folk, bossa novaHome: Mexico
Poster Position: 8
Both Weekends.
I've heard her 2018 album before - it was on someone's top ten list from last year - but other than some lovely singing and pretty guitar plucking, I don't much care for it. And that isn't just because of the language barrier, although that definitely comes into play. Even if this was English, I still wouldn't be likely to hang out with some soft rock acoustic sleepy-time music. That being said, the top track from the album, "La Llorona," is straight up fucking beautiful. I have no clue what she is talking about, but its a lovely ballad of dual classical guitars and her longing voice weaving over the top. I could melt this song into a bathtub and float there until I died. 8.1 million streams.
I'd also like to note that Warner Brothers released a movie called The Curse of La Llorona, that looks freaking scary.
Anyway, back to the tunes. Lafourcade is from Mexico City, and Wikipedia says she is one of the most successful singers in the pop rock scene in all of Latin America. Her parents are both musicians of note, and her mother used a special musical technique that she pioneered to help Natalia recover following a head injury from being kicked by a horse. She's been nominated for several Grammys and won in 2016 for Best Latin Rock, Urban, or Alternative Album, and has won 11 Latin Grammys on 23 nominations (almost 50%! Not bad!)
Other than the honestly quite enjoyable Musas, Vol. 2 album from 2018, she also offers Musas, Vol. 1 from 2017, 2015's Hasta la Raiz (which is responsible for many of those Grammys mentioned above), 2014's Mujer Divina - Homenaje a Agustin Lara, another copy of that same album name but released in 2012, 2012's Rock Latino, 2009's HU HU HU, and 2002's Natalia Lafourcade. I dig HU HU HU as an album name.
Her top track overall is the title song from Hasta la Raiz, with just over 125 million streams. Pretty impressive.
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