Maria Natalia Lafourcade Silva was born on 26 February 1984 in Mexico City, Mexico, and grew up in Coatepec, Veracruz, Mexico, surrounded by music and art.
32 Facts About Natalia Lafourcade
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Natalia Lafourcade's father is the Chilean musician Gaston Lafourcade, who had French parents, and her mother is the pianist Maria del Carmen Silva Contreras.
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Natalia Lafourcade's uncle was Chilean writer Enrique Lafourcade, a representative of the so-called "Generation of the 50s".
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Natalia Lafourcade would be influenced by Fiona Apple, Bjork and Cafe Tacvba as well as Ely Guerra and Julieta Venegas.
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Natalia Lafourcade's mother studied piano with a specialty in musical pedagogy and is the creator of the Macarsi Method for musical training and personal development for children and educators.
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Natalia Lafourcade adapted and practiced the method with Lafourcade to help her rehabilitate through music, following a head injury from being kicked by a horse.
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Natalia Lafourcade attended Instituto Anglo Espanol, a Catholic middle school, and studied painting, flute, theater, music, acting, piano, guitar, saxophone, and singing.
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When she was 10, Natalia Lafourcade sang in a mariachi group.
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In 1998, Natalia Lafourcade joined a pop music group called Twist.
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Natalia Lafourcade has stated that one of the things she disliked about being in Twist, and a reason she began to look for alternatives, was having to lip sync when performing.
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Natalia Lafourcade was hesitant, and Ceroni instead encouraged her to become independent.
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Natalia Lafourcade produced her first LP under the label of Sony Music.
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Natalia Lafourcade performed in the city of Dolores Hidalgo, in a concert at the Colegio Lic.
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Natalia Lafourcade recorded a duet with Leon Larregui, "Llevarte a Marte", and contributed the song "Un Pato" for the movie Temporada de patos.
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On 2 June 2006, after a tour through Mexico and parts of the US, Natalia Lafourcade announced she would leave La Forquetina to work as a solo artist.
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Natalia Lafourcade has appeared on other songs with various other artists.
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Natalia Lafourcade reappeared with her former band on various compilation disks with previously unreleased tracks such as "Y Todo Para Que" on Intocable's X, and on the Tin Tan tribute album, Viva Tin Tan, with the hit "Piel Canela".
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Natalia Lafourcade moved to Canada where she met the band People Project, with whom she still frequently collaborates.
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Natalia Lafourcade returned to Mexico and began to work on Las 4 Estaciones del Amor, her first instrumental album, in collaboration with the Orquesta Sinfonica Juvenil del Estado de Veracruz.
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Natalia Lafourcade wrote the Lyrics for "Tu y Yo" from Ximena Sarinana's self-titled album.
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Natalia Lafourcade was a participant in the Red Bull Music Academy in its 2008 edition, held in Barcelona, Spain.
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From 2008, Natalia Lafourcade had been planning her next album, which she started on at the beginning of 2009.
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Natalia Lafourcade joined the non-profit project Un Techo para mi Pais, which aims to promote community development through the construction of temporary housing for low-income people and other social empowerment projects.
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Natalia Lafourcade voice-acted for the role of the princess in the Spanish version of the computer-animated film The True History of Puss 'N Boots, a French production distributed by MK2 Diffusion.
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Natalia Lafourcade recorded the song "Contigo" with the Spanish band El Canto del Loco, and the song "Quisiera Saber" with the Mexican group Los Daniels.
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In 2011, Natalia Lafourcade won the Best New Producer of the Year award in the Indie-O Music Awards, for her work with Carla Morrison's Mientras Tu Dormias.
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Natalia Lafourcade performed on the NPR Music Tiny Desk series on 27 October 2017.
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On 5 May 2017, Natalia Lafourcade presented her new album, Musas, accompanied by Los Macorinos, old-school musicians who previously worked with artists like Chavela Vargas.
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Natalia Lafourcade occasionally left her break to perform at the Grammys and Latin Grammys' ceremonies.
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On 8 May 2020, Natalia Lafourcade officially launched Un canto por Mexico, an album with a cause, since the proceeds from it were allocated to the reconstruction of the Centro de Documentacion del Son Jarocho, located in the city of Jaltipan de Morelos, Veracruz, which was affected by the 2017 Puebla earthquake.
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On 28 May 2021, Natalia Lafourcade officially released the second part of what turned out to be a two-part series, Un canto por Mexico, vol.
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On October 28,2022, Natalia Lafourcade released her first album in seven years to be composed entirely of original songs, De Todas las Flores.