Bottlerock presents: Natalia Lafourcade on May 29th at The UC Theatre! Get ready for this Latin Grammy nominated singer-songwriter to win your heart!
Maria Natalia Lafourcade Silva is a Mexican pop-rock singer and songwriter who has been one of the most successful singers in the pop rock scene in Latin America.
Maria 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 Gaston Lafourcade and her uncle is writer Enrique Lafourcade.
She attended Instituto Anglo Espanol, 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,Maria 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.
In 2003, she was nominated for a Latin Grammy in the Best New Artist category for her debut album.
Bottlerock presents: Natalia Lafourcade on May 29th at The UC Theatre! Get ready for this Latin Grammy nominated singer-songwriter to win your heart!
Maria Natalia Lafourcade Silva is a Mexican pop-rock singer and songwriter who has been one of the most successful singers in the pop rock scene in Latin America.
Maria 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 Gaston Lafourcade and her uncle is writer Enrique Lafourcade.
She attended Instituto Anglo Espanol, 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,Maria 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.
In 2003, she was nominated for a Latin Grammy in the Best New Artist category for her debut album.
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