Spotlight On: NATALIA LAFOURCADE

ABOUT THIS WEEK’S SHERO IN THE SPOTLIGHT:

The multi-GRAMMY winning artist Natalia Lafourcade hails from the Mexican state of Veracruz. As the daughter of two musicians, she grew up studying and playing several instruments, including piano, flute, saxophone, guitar, and singing. She joined her first band while still in high school, a pop music group called Twist, but came into her own within a few years, releasing her 2002 self-titled debut, a combo of Latin, pop, and bossa nova, which earned Natalia her first Latin GRAMMY Award as Best New Artist. Over the past two decades, Natalia has gone on to win thirteen Latin GRAMMYs, and two GRAMMY Awards, has been nominated nearly three times that number between the two awards, and has become one of the most successful singers to emerge from Latin America, earning international acclaim. Over nine albums, Natalia evolved her sound from original songs rooted in pop, rock, latin rhythm, and bossa nova, to, in recent years, exploring more traditional music and songs of Mexico and Latin America. Now, twenty years after her debut, and seven years since her last album of all original material, Natalia Lafourcade is back with her tenth studio release, De Todas las Flores, Of All the Flowers, which sees her stepping into a new realm of her sound and songcraft, with a new group of players, including guitarist Marc Ribot, and Fiona Apple’s bassist Sebastian Steinberg. I am thrilled to welcome Natalia Lafourcade as this week’s SHERO In The Spotlight. 

Our playlist includes a new one from SZA called “Shirt”.

SHERO BIRTHDAYS: We celebrate a number of SHERO birthdays this week including Joni Mitchell on 11/7, Bonnie Raitt, Rickie Lee Jones and SZA on 11/8, and Susan Tedeschi on 11/9!