Natalia Lafourcade

Natalia Lafourcade
Birth name	María Natalia Lafourcade Silva
Born	February 26, 1984 (1984-02-26) (age 27) Mexico City, Mexico
Origin
Genres	Rock, Pop, Latin
Occupations	Singer, Songwriter
Years active	1998–present
Labels	Sony-BMG
Associated acts	Natalia y La Forquetina
Website	lafourcade.com.mx
Notable instruments
Acoustic Guitar, Piano

Natalia Lafourcade (born Natalia Lafourcade Silva on 26 February 1984 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican pop-rock singer and songwriter. Her band's name is Natalia y La Forquetina.

Biography

Since she was very young, Natalia had a great interest in music, partly because her parents were musicians (her father is the French-Chilean musician Gastón Lafourcade). At three years old she began to sing and at four, she realized that she wanted to be an artist.

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

She lived many years in Coatepec, Veracruz, Mexico, where she studied music with her mother, imitating artists like Gloria Trevi and Garibaldi.

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

Soon after, she began preparing to be a solo artist. 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.

Although Lafourcade didn't join the group, Loris 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", "Mirame, Mirate", and her biggest hit, "En El 2000".

In 2003, she was nominated for a Latin Grammy in the Best New Artist category (she lost to David Bisbal) 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.

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

Natalia y La Forquetina era

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 2006, after a tour through Mexico and parts of the U.S., on June 2, Natalia announced that she will be leaving La Forquetina to once again work as a solo artist. Natalia y la Forquetina's final show was played on August 18, 2006 in San Luis Potosí. Following the group's break-up, Casa won the Latin Grammy for Best Rock Album by a Duo or Group with Vocal in September.

Also in 2006, a documentary about the band was made, mostly showing the group on the road and their travels. The documentary was aired on MTV Tr3s in the fall of 2007.

In 2008 she played in Julieta Venegas' MTV Unplugged.

Natalia Lafourcade has also appeared on other songs with various other artists. These include Liquits' "Jardin", Kalimba's "Dia de Suerte", Control Machete's "El Apostador", and Reik's rendition of a Lafourcade song "Amarte Duele". Also she along with her former band have appeared on various compilation disks with previously unreleased tracks such as "Y Todo Para Que" on Intocable's X and on the Tin Tan tribute album, Viva Tin Tan, with the hit "Piel Canela". In 2011, she made a very clever and popular music video with Los Daniels called "Quisiera Saber."

Her last name is French and means "the forking" (of road).

After over a year that Natalia departed from La Forquetina, she recorded an instrumental album called The 4 Seasons of Love under Sony BMG label.

Discography

Album
Natalia Lafourcade Released: February 25, 2003 Mexican Chart Position: #1 Mexican Certification: Platinum Singles: "Busca un Problema" "En el 2000" "Te Quiero Dar" "Mirame, Mirate" "Elefantes"
Casa Released: August 30, 2005 Mexican Chart Position: #1 Mexican Certification: Gold Singles: "Ser Humano" "Casa" "Un pato
Las 4 Estaciones Del Amor Released: January 22, 2008
Hu Hu Hu Released: May 29, 2009 Mexican Chart Position: #9 Singles: "Azul" "Ella Es Bonita" "Cursis Melodias" "No Viniste"

References

• Madrigal, Alex (March 25, 2009). "Encuentra su libertad Natalia Lafourcade experimenta nuevos ritmos en el estudio de grabación" (in Spanish). El Universal. http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/espectaculos/89026.html. Retrieved 28 December 2009. 

External links

• Natalia Lafourcade on Myspace
• Natalia Lafourcade on Facebook
• Natalia Lafourcade's channel on YouTube
• Natalia Lafourcade on Twitter

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Name	Lafourcade, Natalia
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Date of birth	February 26, 1984
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