Natalia Lafourcade

Today on Ecléctico you're listening to Natalia Lafourcade, a Mexican singer and musician who, in the last couple of years, has added interpretations of Mexican folk songs to her repertoire after a successful string of pop/rock albums.

You'll go deeper with an excerpt from and a link to an article/podcast by Felix Contreras on NPR's Alt.Latino.

"Nunca Es Suficiente" by Natalia Lafourcade
2020 | Singer, musician, and songwriter from Mexico City

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One of the moments that I fell in love with this community [in Veracruz] is when I went to the Seminario of Son Jarocho that they give once a year in Luna Negra, and there is a moment where many people from the community of Jaraneros come to this area. And they get together, they make fandangos, they make music all day and all night. It's a beautiful thing. And for me, to see all these young people loving so much of this music, it gave me hope for how things can change in our society and in our country. To see how they love their roots and their music, their own thing, it was just like, "Wow, I didn't know we had this. I didn't know there were so many people so proud and so open to share." And that was one of the reasons that I said, "I want to be part of this. I want to learn more. I want to bring this influence into my music."

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