Downs returns to the Bay Area for a Cal Performances Día de los Muertos concert Oct. 25, an event that has become one of the ...

This weekend, Cal Performances hosts a Día de Los Muertos concert featuring Grammy-award-winning Lila Downs. The ...

Costa Mesa — Singer songwriter Lila Downs has won a Grammy in the category of Best Música Mexicana Album and five Latin Grammys in the categories of Best Folk Album and Best Traditional Pop Vocal ...

Dia de los Muertos, the Mexican holiday in which people remember and pay respects to family members who have passed on, ...

Lila Downs and Dora the Explorer comadres? It just kind of makes sense that they would be friends. The popular Mexican singer and the diminutive animated TV character share a sense of adventure, an ...

Music on the Hill, a nonprofit San Francisco chamber music series dedicated to presenting high quality concerts at affordable ...

Oaxacan singer-songwriter Lila Downs has been an icon of Mexican folk music for decades. Currently in the early planning stages of a new album, the GRAMMY and Latin Grammy winner jumped on a call with ...

One of Berkeley’s biggest Día de los Muertos celebrations goes on amid increased fears by some in the Latino community. In ...

Different worlds converge, rather than collide, in the improbably varied life and music of Lila Downs. Like the Grateful Dead, the fabled San Francisco band she used to follow from city to city and ...

One day while she was working in her mother's shop in Oaxaca, Mexico, a man came in and asked Lila Downs to translate his son's death certificate. Downs, who is bilingual, read the document, which ...

The musical vision of Lila Downs comes from the unique intersection of her circumstances and cultures. She was raised in Minneapolis by her American father and by her mother in Oaxaca in southern ...

The Morning Edition Song Project, where we ask musicians to write an original song about the COVID era, continues today with Lila Downs. The artist grew up splitting her time between Minnesota and ...