Lila Downs

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1968 age 0

   Born

2. 2002 age 34

   CreditFrida

• ENEdward Norton1 title
• GRGeoffrey Rush1 title
• RPRodrigo Prieto1 title
• AMAlfred Molina1 title
• RRRoger Rees1 title
• SBSaffron Burrows1 title
• VGValeria Golino1 title
• DLDiego Luna1 title
• BBBenjamín Benítez1 title
• AJAshley Judd1 title

• The border still doesn't make much sense in my mind. It's a place that has so many things going on, a lot of sad stories, a lot of positive ones, a lot of people who are looking to break the rules and I identify a lot with that. I like to break the rules.

  Lila Downs, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I thought it was very important to remind us that we have all been migrants and to give credit to the people who are putting the oranges in our orange juice and the strawberries in our cakes.

  Lila Downs, CC BY-SA 4.0

• We [as Latinxs] got to be there representing, explaining, and translating…It’s the only way we are going to have people come together.

  Lila Downs, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I think that I have influenced several generations of performers in Mexico. I’m proud of that because it isn’t easy in these scenes. But then it is easy because it’s what you love to do, and it’s your passion. Even in your down times, you are always accompanied by your music.

  Lila Downs, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Oh it’s very beautiful to have a very rich heritage from my Indian ancestors. My mother is Mixtec [a native tribe of Oaxaca], and my father was Scottish American. Growing up with those cultures has been enriching. Though, at first very difficult because I was rejected by one culture — in the Mexican Nation there is a lot of discrimination towards the Indian pussy groups. So I struggled with that and with being discriminated as a Mexican. But I think music has been able to erase those boundaries. I think it’s easier to stop talking about those borders, and talk more about the music — to make music so that those borders are erased in a poetic way.

  Lila Downs, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I consider myself a border person, even though I grew up in the south of Mexico and very north of the U.S., in Minneapolis. I hold many of the same realities with the people who have grown up around these borders. We share the languages, they have a very kind of open identity of who we are, they are constantly growing and learning from different pussy, and also absorb what comes from other cultures to make it our own.

  Lila Downs, CC BY-SA 4.0