De Todas las Flores, El Pódcast (2022)
This podcast is the musical diary of Natalia Lafourcade's intimate processes in creating “De Todas las Flores” (Of All the Flowers). Twelve reflective episodes on each of the songs with guests who through voice messages and conversations show the inner universe of the artist. A celebration of the invisible seams, inspirations, mistakes, learnings, and discoveries that emerged during this process.
De todas las flores (2022)
After a 4-album adventure traversing Latin American folklore, Natalia Lafourcade returns to the realm of the personal to harvest De Todas las Flores, her first completely unreleased album since her 2015 album Hasta La Raíz. It is a dazzling and deeply sophisticated collection of original songs that feature Natalia’s trademark compositional virtues – the unusual melodic turns, the affecting poetry, her lightness of touch – while also revealing a musical maturity that hints at a new step in her career.
Recorded live on analog tape in Veracruz and Texas, and mixed in Paris, the album features stellar musicians including New York Jazz guitar icon Marc Ribot, Fiona Apple bassist Sebastian Steinberg and pianist Emilio Dorantes, with the multi-talented Adan Jodorowsky serving as co-producer.
Life and death, love and heartbreak, as the great axes that govern the world, are protagonists in this album made by Natalia from the celebration of nature, acceptance, inclusion, femininity, the ancestral, mysticism and healing.
Tierra querida (2022)
Natalia relates that the inspiration to compose this song was born from a visit she made to the San Lorenzo hacienda in Parras, Coahuila, the oldest winery in Mexico and the American continent with 425 years of history. This is a two-pen composition between the singer and producer Natalia Lafourcade and the poet Citlali Aguilera Lira. The lyrics evoke the earth and the way in which human effort transforms it into fruits, such as a good wine.
Tierra querida (Dear land) is a song that speaks from the perspective of the grape, of the land itself and also that of the one who cares for it until it (the grape) detaches itself from its stem until the cycles necessary to give its wealth are completed.
Un canto por México, The musical (2021)
After the release of volumes 1 and 2 of “Un canto por México”, Natalia wanted to pay tribute to this cycle with a great celebration in which she, Los Cojolites, Mare Advertencia and almost twenty musicians and dancers came together to reflect their love and communion for music.
“Un canto pot México”, The musical, is a song of joy, but also of sorrow. A song for love and for heartbreak, to the divine, to life and to death. A song to tradition, to memory and roots. It is also the singing of women and the singing of men. The voice of girls and boys, of grandfathers and grandmothers, the singing of the earth that rumbles in the wood of each instrument, that rumbles in the strength of the word and the beat of hearts.
In this video Natalia and her musical guests invite us to believe that, just as music achieves to encounter, balance and harmony, we could well recover unity in the world that we all inhabit.
Winner, Grammy Award: Best Regional Mexican Music Album.
Latin Grammy nomination: Best Folk Album.
Un Canto por México, Vol. II (2021)
In 2017, a commitment was made to rebuild the Center of Documentation of Son Jarocho, and a key event to help raise money for this effort was the benefit concert in the National Auditorium in Mexico City. The first and second volumes of Un canto por México bring together the musical repertoire of that performance. Natalia LaFourcade joins her interests once again with the expertise of producer Kiko Campos, as well as the talents of more than 50 musicians drawn from varied facets of regional Mexican music, enhancing the spirit present in these volumes. This project is a contemporary portrait set in a particular moment in history, where we hear a collective voice and the strength of music made as a community.
The second volume of Un canto por Mexico is distinguished by the presence of Mare Advertencia, Pepe Aguilar, Rubén Blades, Los Cojolites, Aída Cuevas, Jorge Drexler, Silvana Estrada, Ely Guerra, Mon Laferte, Carlos Rivera y Caetano Veloso. It gives thanks and celebrates the uniting of forces to rebuild a community space where music, culture and traditions are passed down from generation to generation.
Grammy Award nomination: Best Regional Mexican Music Album.
2 Latin Grammy nominations:Best Engineered Album and Album of the Year.
Alfonsina y El Mar (2021)
In March 2021, within the context of Women’s History Month, Natalia Lafourcade interprets Alfonsina y el mar, paying an audiovisual tribute to the poet Alfonsina Storni and her tragic story. In this samba originally composed by Ariel Ramírez and Félix Luna, the artist celebrates life, femininity, strength, love, passion, sweetness, courage and pain that so many women carry in their wombs and in their depths of the soul. For the first time Natalia Lafourcade shares, in a visual piece filmed by the sea of Veracruz, her exploration in contemporary dance, evoking the sad story behind this song.
Un Canto Por México, Volumen 1 (2020)
After having explored Latin American music, Natalia Lafourcade makes a record with a purely Mexican flavor under the direction of Kiko Campos. A great number of talented musicians contribute to this project. Coexisting on the album are genres of traditional Mexican music such as bolero ranchero, cumbia, polka, norteño, son Jarocho, son Jaliscience, and bossa nova. This album brings together the talents of great artists such as: los Cojolites, Jorge Drexler, Leonel García, Emmanuel del Real “Meme” y Panteón Rococó, among others. This musical project is part of a concerted effort to help rebuild the Center for the documentation of Son Jarocho, an undertaking spearheaded by Lafourcade after its damage in an earthquake in 2017.
Winner, Grammy Award: Best Regional Mexican Music Album.
Winner, 2 Latin Grammys: Album of the Year and Best Regional Mexican Song for the single Mi Religión.
La Malquerida (2020)
The song is inspired by all the women who have already departed, by those whose lives were taken from them, by those who are no longer here with us and those who continue to stand, by the struggle in so many lands, in so many countries, by the feeling of being unwanted that many women carry inside. And it is also a call to unity, as Natalia Lafourcade wanted to reflect in the video by showing a group of beautiful women offering their song to the fire.
It is a song for all those women who march forward year after year, who are working very hard. But the composer also emphasizes how art can contribute in resolving these issues by allowing the message to be open to everyone in society, to both women and men, and to this end create balance between masculine and feminine energies so that people can live together with love and respect. It is an impetus that Lafourcade gives through her medium, music, because with it she can cross barriers to reach the hearts of those who can still make a change.
Musas: Un Homenaje al Folclore Latinoamericano en Manos de Los Macorinos. Volumen 2 (2018)
After an extensive tour accompanied by Los Macarinos (Miguel Peña and Juan Carlos Allende) Natalia Lafourcade releases the second part of the Musas project, while continuing to find enrichment in traditional music created by great songwriters such as María Grever, Álvaro Carrillo y Margarita Lecuona. The album contains her own songs as well as older instrumental pieces like Vals Poético de Felipe Villanueva. Natalia embraces the opportunity to strengthen the bond with the continent where she was born.
Grammy Award nomination: Best Latin Pop Album.
3 Latin Grammy nominations: Record of the Year, Album of the Year and Song of the Year for the single Danza de Gardenias.
Winner, Latin Grammy: Best Folk Album.
Musas: Un homenaje al Folclore Latinoamericano en Manos de Los Macorinos. Volumen 1 (2017)
Natalia Lafourcade pays homage to Latin American folk music together with the musicians Los Macorinos (who have accompanied José José, Eugenia León y Chavela Vargas and others) interpreting the songs of Simón Díaz, Violeta Parra y Roberto Cantoral and more. In an encounter with traditional music, Natalia collaborates with Omara Portuondo and creates a new space to reexamine these timeless songs and place them in today’s music scene. Natalia’s own songs on this album take inspiration from the roots of Latin American music of the last century.
2 Latin Grammy nominations: Album of the Year and Song of Year for Tú Sí Sabes Quererme.
Winner, 2 Latin Grammys: Best Folk Album and Best Long Form Video for Musas, El Documental.
Hasta la Raíz, Special Edition (2016)
In this watershed album, Natalia Lafourcade searches for her own musical roots and finds a strong connection with Latin American music. She bears her soul in presenting these autobiographical and deeply personal, original songs that make their way around the world. The album is produced in collaboration with Cachorro López, Leonel García y Gustavo Guerrero. It reaches number eight in the Top Latin Albums of Billboard and number one in Mexico. Hasta la Raíz becomes the soundtrack of many people’s lives and the standard bearer for various causes.
Winner, Grammy Award: Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album.
Winner, 5 Latin Grammys: Best Engineered Recording, Record of the Year, Best Alternative Music Album, Song of the Year and Best Alternative Song for the single Hasta la Raíz.
Mujer Divina, Deluxe (2013)
After showing a sensitive approach to the music of composer Agustín Lara, Natalia Lafourcade presents a new version of some of her songs in a live concert recorded at the Roberto Cantoral Cultural Center in the company of artists such as Ximena Sariñana, Eugenia León, Leonel García and Emmanuel del Real “Meme”, among others. This edition includes the tracks from the original disc with a DVD with the recording of the concert and a documentary about the process.
Mujer Divina (2012)
Seeking to learn more about the interpretation of classic songs, Natalia Lafourcade encounters the work of Agustín Lara. His songs of the 1930s-1950s inspire her to fuse his universe with her own, creating contemporary versions that bring new generations closer to a nearly forgotten musical genre. In this project she collaborates with international artists Vicentico, Gilberto Gil, Devendra Banhart, Kevin Johansen, Miguel Bosé and Jorge Drexler, among others.
Winner, 2 Latin Grammys: Best Alternative Music Album and Best Long Form Music Video.
Hu-Hu-Hu (2009)
In 2007 following her initial success and after having recorded the album Casa with her band “Natalia y La Forquetina,” Natalia takes a year-long sabbatical in Canada. Resuming her career, she returns to Mexico City, and for six weeks shuts herself in her studio with producers to experiment with the sounds that begin to define her as an artist. The result is the record Hu-Hu-Hu, a musical diary reflecting her artistic and musical explorations of the time.
Grammy Award Nomination: Best Latin Pop Album.
Natalia Lafourcade (2002)
This self-titled, autobiographical album of original music brings together Natalia Lafourcade’s first compositions. It fuses musical genres such as pop, bossa nova, rock and funk and features lyrics that reflect the voice of a younger generation.
Grammy Award nomination: Best Latin Pop Album.
4 Latin Grammy Award nominations: Song of the Year, Best Rock Song for En el 2000, Best New Artist and Best Rock Solo Vocal Album.
Winner, 3 MTV Awards: Best Soloist, Best Pop Artist, Best New Artist of Mexico.