Visiting us from Mexico this weekend is the lovely and talented Natalia Lafourcade who will headline a concert at Logan Square Auditorium (2539 N. Kedzie), sharing the stage with recently Grammy-nominated newcomers Hello Seahorse! and local rockers Canasta, on Friday, November 13th. This Ratio Live event, sponsored by Arte y Vida Chicago with Enchufate as media sponsor, will begin at promptly 9PM. Anyone purchasing tickets day of will also receive a free ticket to the upcoming Volumen Cero concert at Rumba. Sweet deal!
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About Natalia Lafourcade:
Since she was very young, Natalia had a great interest in music, partly
because her parents were musicians (her father is the Chilean-born
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.
About Hello Seahorse!:
Hello Seahorse!, the Mexican trio of Burgos, Denise (aka Vanilla Face),
and Bonno T, mix a twee sensibility and artsy DIY visual aesthetic with
unexpected instrumental interludes (lapping ocean waves, jumbled voices
over piano) and spacier, darker, non-twee moments. They have a knack
for writing pop songs that hit you immediately. You could think of them
as a scaled down Los Campesinos! (note shared exclamation point), an
even more scaled down I’m From Barcelona, or, maybe, a Sarah Records
band singing in Spanish. (On a track like “Antardecer En Parapent”
you’ll even hear Stereolab in the vocal patterns.) HS!’s catchiest
song, bar none, is “Won’t Say Anything,” which we have in video and
audio form. You should also take a listen to the glitchier Velocity
Girl-esque “Universo 2,” which closes out Hoy A Las Ocho, and gives an
idea of the band’s aforementioned diversity.
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