A SHERO's Journey: Natalia Lafourcade

The multi-Grammy winning and internationally acclaimed Mexican
artist Natalia Lafourcade joins Carmel Holt to discuss her first
album of original material in seven years, De Todas las Flores.
Natalia Lafourcade hails from the Mexican state of Veracruz. She is
the daughter of two musicians, and grew up studying and playing
several instruments, including piano, flute, saxophone, singing and
guitar. Natalia joined her first band while still in high school, a
pop music group called Twist, but came into her own within a few
years, releasing her 2002 self titled debut - a combo of latin,
pop, and bossa nova, which earned Natalia her first Latin Grammy
award as best new artist. Over the past two decades, Natalia has
gone on to win 13 Latin Grammys, and two Grammy awards, has been
nominated nearly three times that number between the two awards,
and has become one of the most successful singers to emerge from
Latin America, earning international acclaim. Across her nine
albums, Natalia evolved her sound from original songs rooted in
pop, rock, latin rhythm, and bossa nova, to, in recent years,
exploring more traditional music and songs of Mexico and Latin
america. Now, twenty years after her debut, and seven since her
last album of all original material, Natalia Lafourcade is back
with her tenth studio release, De Todas las Flores - or, Of All the
Flowers, which sees her stepping into a new realm of her sound and
her songcraft with a new group of players including guitarist Marc
Ribot, and Fiona Apple’s bassist Sebastien Steinberg.