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Natalia Lafourcade sings to life and death in her new album

2022-04-03T17:07:34.358Z


Natalia Lafourcade presented her new album "Un canto por México, vol. 2". The Mexican singer-songwriter talks to Zona Pop CNN about the album.


Natalia Lafourcade's favorite songs from her new album 3:25

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Natalia Lafourcade presented on May 28, 2021 the second volume of her project "A song for Mexico".

Lafourcade brought together several of his friends to present an album that contains jewels of Latin American music, brought to the present day.

For this production, the singer-songwriter reverted songs like "Cien Años" by Pedro Infante, one of her favorite performers.

Lafourcade said that this is one of his favorite songs from the production.

For this version, Lafourcade had the voice of Pepe Aguilar.

"

One hundred years

is one of my favorite (themes) (on the album), that's why we made it simple. I really love that song, I love the voice of Pepe (Aguilar)," Lafourcade said. He recently spoke with Zona Pop CNN, our podcast of pop culture.

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This was a song she fell in love with as a child.

"The first time I listened to

One Hundred Years

I felt like the world stopped. I heard Pedro Infante's voice after a deep sigh, that unmistakable guitar chord that sounds from the first moment. I thought about love and how everything revolves around it , makes us die and be born. It gives meaning to life. I wondered if one day I could sing that song and interpret it with so much feeling, "Lafourcade said on Instagram in April of this year.

And although he does not consider himself a regional Mexican singer, he did give himself the license to flirt with these rhythms.

Lafourcade: An album that sings to life and death

One of the singer-songwriter's goals with "Un canto por México, vol. 2" was to bring music legends to the present and make their music generate extrasensory feelings.

"It is an album that encapsulates the music scene, or part of the music scene, that we live in today. The greats, the legends of the past, but those of the present as well. It encapsulates Chavela Vargas without Chavela Vargas being present There is Frida Kahlo, there is Diego Rivera," he says.

"It's an album that tastes like mole to me, that you feel the corn. You feel in the countryside, you feel the land, you feel the city, you feel Mexico alive there. (An album) that sings to it as well as to life, sings to the death, he sings of pain, he sings of love, heartbreak, joy," said Lafourcade.

The collaborations in "A song for Mexico, vol. 2"

In a natural follow-up, for this second volume, Natalia Lafourcade recruited artists such as Jorge Drexler, Mon Laferte, Aida Cuevas, Carlos Rivera, Rubén Blades or Caetano Veloso.

Artists whom, says Lafourcade, he did not have to convince to join the project.

The singer says that, for example, Mon Laferte was always "very worried about this project, she was very aware of what was going to happen, that they were going to have whatever they want with me here. This has been very nice."

With Caetano Veloso it was something similar, he says.

"I remember that he was going to record a long time ago, a year ago, when we were supposed to finish the album and then the pandemic came and we put it on pause. But he had already told us yes. And a year passed. A A year later we talked to him again and he said yes, send me a song and he went in to record," Lafourcade told CNN Pop Zone.

As with the first volume, "Un canto por México, vol. 2", it will benefit the Son Jarocho Documentation Center, in Jatiplán, Morelos, which was destroyed during the 2017 earthquake in Mexico.

"This project is born from a space that is collapsing due to tremors, due to the intention of a community that we want to come to help. We meet another community from which we learn its wealth, we learn its world, its universe," said Lafourcade to CNN Pop Zone.

"Un canto por México, vol. 1", won the 2020 Latin Grammy for "Album of the Year" and the 2021 Grammy Award for "Best Regional Mexican Album (including Tejano)".

The songs that make up "A song for Mexico, vol. 2"

1.- "La Llorona" (acoustic version)


2.- "Cien Años" with Pepe Aguilar


3.- "Alma mia / You got used to me / Soledad and the sea"


4.- "Luz de Luna" with Aida Cuevas


5. - "La braid / Complete Love" with Mon Laferte


6.- "Nada es true" with Los Cojolites


7.- "Recuérdame" with Carlos Rivera


8.- "La Llorona" with Silvana Estrada & Ely Guerra


9.- "I am the forbidden" with Caetano Veloso


10.- "You do know how to love me" with Rubén Blades & Mare Aviso


11.- "Why suffer" (acoustic version) with Jorge Drexler

Editor's Note:

This article was first published on June 1, 2021.

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