What is Lila Downs?
{{Infobox musical artist | Name = Lila Downs | Img = Lila Downs at Ferrocarril Museum.JPG | Img_alt = | Img_capt = FILO, november 2012 - Ferrocarril Museum of Oaxaca | image_size = | Landscape = | Background = solo_singer | Birth_name = Ana Lila Downs Sánchez<ref>51st Annual Grammy Awards - Arrivals. [http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/_r3hXkzipOG/51st+Annual+Grammy+Awards+Arrivals/-Sg8nzl0j42/Lila+Downs Lila Downs]</ref> | Alias = | birth_date= {{Birth date and age|1968|09|09}} | death_date= | Origin = Tlaxiaco, [[Oaxaca]], [[Mexico]] | Instrument = [[Singing|Voice]] | Genre = [[World music]] | Occupation = Entertainer | Years_active = 1990–present | Label = [[Sony Music Latin]] | associated_acts = | URL = {{URL|liladowns.com}} }} '''Lila Downs''' (September 9, 1968 in [[Tlaxiaco]], [[Oaxaca]], [[Mexico]]) is a [[Mexico|Mexican]]/[[United States|American]] [[singer-songwriter]]. She performs her own compositions as well as [[Music|Mexican traditional and popular music]]. She also incorporates indigenous Mexican influences and have recorded songs in [[Indigenous languages of Mexico|indigenous languages]] such as [[Mixtec language|Mixtec]], [[Zapotec language|Zapotec]], [[Yucatec Maya language|Maya]], [[Nahuatl]] and [[P'urhépecha]].<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/ad29ae1c-2eda-4071-9dc8-31910e7e546c BBC Music: Lila Downs.]</ref> Her albums are ''[[One Blood]]'', ''[[Shake Away]]'', and ''[[Sins and Miracles]]'' has won various [[Grammy]]s and [[World Music Award]]s. == Early life == Downs is the daughter of [[Mixtec]] cabaret singer Anita Sánchez and Allen Downs, a [[Scotland|Scottish]]/[[England|English]]-[[USA|American]] professor of art and cinematographer from [[Minnesota]]. She learned to sing at the age of four. She began to perform rancheras songs when she was 10 years old. Lila grew up partly in the [[M