Lafourcade was born in Mexico City, Mexico, surrounded by music and art. Her father is the Chilean musician Gastón Lafourcade who had French parents and her mother is the pianist María del Carmen Silva Contreras. Her uncle is the Chilean writer Enrique Lafourcade, a representative of the so-called "Generation of the 50s". She attended Instituto Anglo Español, 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, María del Carmen Silva Contreras, imitating artists such as Gloria Trevi and Garibaldi. Her mother studied piano with a specialty in musical pedagogy and is the creator of the Macarsi Method for musical training and personal development for children and educators. She adapted and practiced the method with Natalia to help her rehabilitate through music following a head injury from being kicked by a horse.
When she was 17, Loris Ceroni gave Lafourcade the opportunity to be in a pop/rock group under his guidance. Lafourcade was hesitant, and Ceroni instead encouraged her to become independent. Lafourcade 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", "Mírame, Mírate", and her biggest hit, "En El 2000".
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. More than a year after Natalia departed from La Forquetina, she recorded an instrumental album called The 4 Seasons of Love under Sony BMG label. She also wrote the Lyrics for "Tú y Yo" from Ximena Sariñana's self-titled album.
In 2009, she released the album Hu Hu Hu, a top 10 album in Mexico. The album was produced by Emmanuel del Real (who produced "Casa" in 2005), Marco Moreno and Ernesto García. It was nominated for Best female Pop Vocal Album at the 2009 Latin Grammy Awards (won by Laura Pausini) and Best Latin Pop album at the 2010 Grammy Awards (won by La Quinta Estación). Club Fonograma also named the album the second best of 2009, and the seventh best of the decade.
In 2012, she released a tribute album to Agustín Lara called Mujer Divina.
Her next album, Hasta La Raíz, was released in March 2015. "Nunca Es Suficiente" (It's Never Enough), the first single off the album, was released on 10 February. The track "Hasta La Raíz" was No. 5 of the Viral 50 Global Spotify Chart and the No. 1 on the Viral 50 México chart.
In 2017, she recorded "Remember Me" as a duet with contemporary R&B singer Miguel for the credits of the movie Coco, and together they also performed the song at the 90th Academy Awards ceremony.
2020 saw her release the eponymous Un Canto por México, Vol. 1.
In 2023, She won a Grammy for her album " Un Canto Por México - El Musical"
Alimento de La Vida
Natalia Lafourcade Lyrics
Jump to: Overall Meaning ↴ Line by Line Meaning ↴
En el cielo de un bosque
Grande
Camino
Y las toco si vuelo
Me pican
Que hay más secas
Abrazan
Mi cuerpo
Se rompen
Y después se caen
Se llevan el miedo
Hay veces
Que no puedo explicarte nada
Y todo se convierte en fantasmas
No es real
Tu sabes
Que si miento me pierdo
O cuando
El miedo
Me invade me acaba comiendo
Alimento de la vida
Es el amor
Alimenta las heridas
Calma el dolor
The lyrics of Natalia y La Forquetina's song, Alimento de la Vida, paint a picture of a forest, with the singer describing their experience of being in it. The first stanza starts with the observation of the leaves in the sky of the vast forest. The second stanza describes their walk through the woodland, with the singer touching the leaves while they fly, but getting stung by them. The third stanza talks about the singer's interaction with the dry branches in the forest, which clasp their body and break off before falling to the ground, taking away their fear.
The fourth stanza goes on to describe an abstract experience of the singer, times when they cannot explain anything, and everything becomes ghosts, unreal. The fifth stanza is introspective and intimate, acknowledging that if the singer lies, they lose themselves. It highlights the power of fear and how it can consume a person. The last two lines of the poem bring the song's central theme to the forefront, that love is the nourishment of life, feeding one's wounds and easing their pain.
Line by Line Meaning
Hay hojas
There are leaves
En el cielo de un bosque
In the sky of a forest
Grande
Large
Camino
I walk
Y las toco si vuelo
And I touch them if I fly
Me pican
They itch me
Las ramas
The branches
Que hay más secas
Which are drier
Abrazan
Embrace
Mi cuerpo
My body
Se rompen
They break
Y después se caen
And then they fall
Se llevan el miedo
They take away the fear
Hay veces
Sometimes
Que no puedo explicarte nada
I can't explain anything to you
Y todo se convierte en fantasmas
And everything turns into ghosts
No es real
It's not real
Tu sabes
You know
Que si miento me pierdo
That if I lie, I lose myself
O cuando
Or when
El miedo
Fear
Me invade me acaba comiendo
Invades me and ends up eating me
Alimento de la vida
Food for life
Es el amor
Is love
Alimenta las heridas
Feeds the wounds
Calma el dolor
Calms the pain
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: MARIA NATALIA LAFOURCADE SILVA
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
Elefante Efervescente
Hace poco murió mi padre, y desde entonces he comprado plantas para darle vida y amor 💚 es mi alimento de la vida
Nestor Cuaya
Por que siempre creí y aun creo que esta canción es tan hermosa y delicada? Me conecte desde que la escuche hace más de 10 años atrás
Camila Chaves Pino
:O me encaaaaanta... Hay veces Que no puedo explicarte nada ... Alimento de la vida es el amor Alimenta las heridas ... Calma el dolor
Anaís Rodriguez
Que linda es esta canción <3
Daniel Grijalva
Q música.... Q música....!
GABO SUAREZ
Tengo.esta rola.en la.mente tiene.dias
estrato73
Escuchando en 2019
Diego Andrés Vaucher
No tengo nada que criticar en este video ya que me encanta Natalia y bueno, sigue escribiendo como lo que tanto odias jajaja allá tu :)
Gina Bustamante
ayer entendi tanto....
J. Milo.
Saquen la mota