María Natalia Lafourcade Silva (Spanish pronunciation: [maˈɾi.a naˈtalja lafuɾˈkade ˈsilba]; born 26 February 1984) is a Mexican singer and songwriter who performs in genres such as pop rock, jazz, and folk music.

[4] María Natalia Lafourcade Silva was born on 26 February 1984 in Mexico City,[5] but grew up in Coatepec, Veracruz,[6] surrounded by music and art.

Her father is the Chilean musician Gastón Lafourcade [es],[7] and her mother is the pianist María del Carmen Silva Contreras.

[citation needed] She attended Instituto Anglo Español, a Catholic middle school, and studied painting, flute, theater, music, acting, piano, guitar, saxophone, and singing.

Lafourcade has stated that one of the things she disliked about being in Twist, and a reason she began to look for alternatives, was having to lip sync (mime) when performing.

[11] After finishing high school, Lafourcade enrolled at Academia de Música Fermatta, where she met Ximena Sariñana, Juan Manuel Torreblanca, and Alonso Cortés, who would eventually be the drummer for La Forquetina years later.

The singles on the album were "Busca un Problema", her biggest hit "En el 2000", "Te Quiero Dar", and "Mírame, Mírate".

These include Liquits' [es] "Jardin", Kalimba's "Dia de Suerte", Control Machete's "El Apostador", and Reik's rendition of Lafourcade's song "Amarte Duele".

In the same year, she began to record her fourth album, and held a concert at the Teatro Metropólitan with Juan Son, Porter's ex-vocalist.

She voice-acted for the role of the princess in the Spanish version of the animated film The True History of Puss 'N Boots, a French production distributed by MK2 Diffusion.

Together with Manolo García, she performed the duet "Pájaros de Barro" and "Cursis Melodías" for Lunas del Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City.

Among the guests on this album are Miguel Bosé, Leonardo de Lozanne, Gilberto Gil, the Uruguayan singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler, Café Tacvba's Emmanuel del Real, Lila Downs, the Venezuelan-American musician Devendra Banhart, the group DLD, and Kevin Johansen, the latter who participates in the song "Fugitiva", the production's first single released in digital download.

In this album, Lafourcade takes up the trend that began in Hasta la Raíz of paying homage to the authors who have influenced her musical career.

On this occasion, the stages that received her were strongly attended, including two sold-out presentations at La Trastienda Club and the famous "Ballena Azul" concert hall at the CCK Centro Cultural Néstor Kirchner, which left a large number of fans outside since tickets were sold out in fifteen minutes.

At the end of 2017, Lafourcade participated in the original music for Disney-Pixar's film Coco, playing two versions of the song, "Recuérdame" in Spanish and "Remember Me" in English.

Also included are songs by great Latin American composers, such as Álvaro Carrillo, Augusto Polo Campos, and María Grever.

After the release of Musas, Volumen 2, she toured Europe, performing at the KOKO Theater in London, at the Bataclan in Paris, at the Sala Apolo in Barcelona, and in the cities of Madrid and Ferrol.

After the European tour, Natalia Lafourcade appeared on the stage of the 90th Academy Awards together with Gael García Bernal and Miguel, due to the nomination of "Remember Me".

After concluding the Musas tour, she announced that she would dedicate her time away from the stage to the reconstruction efforts of the Son Jarocho Documentation Center that was damaged after the earthquakes in Mexico in 2017.

As the first step for new record material, Lafourcade held press conferences from 30 September 2019 to 5 December 2019, and the music video for her single "Una vida" was published on YouTube.

Other songs included are "Mexicana hermosa" in a mariachi version with Carlos Rivera, "Un derecho de nacimiento", "Ya no vivo por vivir", "Nunca es suficiente", "Lo que construimos", "Mi tierra veracruzana", and "Cucurrucucú paloma", among others.

The video clip for the single "Mi religión" was released on 7 May 2020, and was recorded on the streets of Guanajuato and San Miguel de Allende.

After traveling to Hacienda San Lorenzo in Parras, Coahuila (the oldest winery in Mexico), Lafourcade was inspired to collaborate with poet Citlali Aguilera Lira to produce the single "Tierra querida.

[20] The album was produced by Adán Jodorowsky, with musicians including guitarist Marc Ribot, bass player Sebastian Steinberg and drummer Cyril Atef.

She began singing in public at age 10 and at the suggestion of a mariachi singer who commented on her lack of proper vocal technique, she sought voice lessons as a child with the goal of appearing on television.