Natalia Lafourcade - Musas Vol. 2 (Vinyl)

María Natalia Lafourcade Silva (born 26 February 1984 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican pop-rock singer and songwriter who since her debut in 2003 has been one of the most successful singers in the pop rock scene in Latin America. Her band's name is Natalia y La Forquetina. Lafourcade's voice has been categorized as a lyric soprano.

Lafourcade's parents were musicians. Her father is the Chilean musician Gastón Lafourcade and her uncle is writer Enrique Lafourcade.

She attended Instituto Anglo Español, a Catholic middle school, and studied painting, flute, theater, music, acting, piano, guitar, saxophone and singing. When she was 10, Natalia sang in a Mariachi group.

She grew up in Coatepec, Veracruz, Mexico, where she studied music with her mother,María del Carmen Silva Contreras, imitating artists like Gloria Trevi and Garibaldi. Her mother studied piano career with a specialty in musical pedagogy and is the creator of the Macarsi Method for musical training and the integral and human development of children and educators, which she adapted and practiced in Natalia as a result of an injury she received on the forehead by a horse, with the purpose of helping her in her rehabilitation through music.

In 1998, Natalia was part of a girl trio called Twist. The group was unsuccessful and they split up the following year.

When she was 17, Loris Ceroni gave Natalia the opportunity to be in a pop/rock group under his guidance, but when she wasn't sure, he encouraged her to go solo. Ceroni produced her first LP under the label of Sony Music. It was recorded in Italy and was cowritten with Aureo Baqueiro. Sabo Romo played in 2 songs. Natalia Lafourcade is a mix of pop, rock, bossa-nova and Latin rhythms. It features the songs "Busca Un Problema", "Elefantes", "Te Quiero Dar", "Mírame, Mírate", and her biggest hit, "En El 2000".

In 2003, she was nominated for a Latin Grammy in the Best New Artist category for her debut album. Also, she collaborated on the soundtrack of the Mexican movie Amar te duele and "Un Pato" for the movie Temporada de patos. Lafourcade was nominated for Rock New Artist at the 16th Lo Nuestro Awards, losing to fellow Mexican singer Alessandra Rosaldo.

In 2011, Lafourcade won the Best New Producer of the Year award in the Indie-O Music Awards, for her work with Carla Morrison's Mientras tu dormías album.

In 2005, she released Casa, her second album, but this time as Natalia y La Forquetina (the name of her band). Produced mostly by Café Tacuba's Emmanuel del Real, Casa presents a more mature, rock-oriented sound while retaining pop and bossa-nova influences on a few tracks, such as lead single "Ser Humano" (pop-rock) and its follow-up "Casa" (pop-bossa-nova). Aureo Baqueiro returned to produce the few tracks not produced by del Real.

In June 2006, after a tour through Mexico and parts of the U.S., on June 2, Lafourcade announced she would leave La Forquetina to once again work as a solo artist.

Source: Discogs