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"
No Más Llorar
Natalia Lafourcade Lyrics
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Saludo al tiempo y saludo al viento
Tengo que aceptar donde camino
Y no recordar que te encuentras lejos
Respiro hondo, respiro profundo
De un clavado al agua me limpio los restos
Que mi piel recuerda de ti
Cuando amanece saludo al sol
Saludo al campo y me voy corriendo
Tengo que ser fuerte aunque no den mis piernas
Caminar sin miedo en la maleza que hay
Respiro hondo, respiro profundo
Canto para limpiar en mi alma
Aquello que de ti ando cargando en mi espalda
Ando cargando en mi espalda
No más llorar
Sé que ya lo nuestro no tiene remedio
Pero no más llorar
No más llorar
Sé que ya lo nuestro no tiene remedio
Pero no más llorar
Cuanta libertad que miro
En las aves que amanecen
En sus cantos sus sonidos
Cómo alegran mis oídos
Escucho una orquesta de hojas en el cielo
Aplausos de piedras en el suelo
Y miro la tarde que me saluda
En mi luto de amor y nacimiento de luna
No más llorar
Sé que ya lo nuestro no tiene remedio
Pero no más llorar
No más llorar
Voy descongelando este invierno que llevo
Para no más llorar
Voy descongelando este invierno que llevo
Para no más llorar
Voy descongelando este invierno que llevo
Para no más llorar
In Natalia Lafourcade's song "No Más Llorar," the singer greets the sun, time, and wind as the day begins. She acknowledges that she needs to accept where she is and not dwell on the fact that the person she loved is far away. Lafourcade mentions that she takes a deep breath and dives into the water to wash away the memories of her lover that her skin still remembers. She continues to greet the sun, the countryside, and runs even though her legs feel weak. In the midst of her journey, she takes another deep breath and sings to cleanse her soul from the burden of her lost love. Lafourcade reminds herself that there should be no more tears. She knows that their relationship has no remedy, and she needs to move on.
As the song continues, Lafourcade recognizes the freedom that birds have in the morning as they sing and celebrate. She states that their sounds bring joy to her ears. She then hears a symphony of leaves in the sky and the sound of stones applauding on the ground. The evening greets Lafourcade during her mourning for lost love and the birth of the moon. However, she reminds herself to stop crying and thaw her heart from the winter of her pain.
Line by Line Meaning
Cuando amanece saludo al sol
I greet the sun each dawn
Saludo al tiempo y saludo al viento
I greet time and I greet the wind
Tengo que aceptar donde camino
I must accept where I walk
Y no recordar que te encuentras lejos
And not remember that you are far away
Respiro hondo, respiro profundo
I take a deep breath, I take a long breath
De un clavado al agua me limpio los restos
I dive into the water to clean the remains
Que mi piel recuerda de ti
That my skin remembers of you
Saludo al campo y me voy corriendo
I greet the field and I run away
Tengo que ser fuerte aunque no den mis piernas
I have to be strong even if my legs don't hold
Caminar sin miedo en la maleza que hay
To walk without fear in the thicket that is there
Canto para limpiar en mi alma
I sing to clean in my soul
Aquello que de ti ando cargando en mi espalda
That which I am carrying of you on my back
Ando cargando en mi espalda
I am carrying on my back
Cuanta libertad que miro
How much freedom I see
En las aves que amanecen
In the birds that awaken
En sus cantos sus sonidos
In their songs their sounds
Cómo alegran mis oídos
How they delight my ears
Escucho una orquesta de hojas en el cielo
I hear an orchestra of leaves in the sky
Aplausos de piedras en el suelo
Applause of stones on the ground
Y miro la tarde que me saluda
And I look at the evening that greets me
En mi luto de amor y nacimiento de luna
In my mourning of love and birth of moon
Voy descongelando este invierno que llevo
I am thawing this winter that I carry
Para no más llorar
So I don't cry anymore
Sé que ya lo nuestro no tiene remedio
I know that what we had cannot be fixed
Pero no más llorar
But no more crying
No más llorar
No more crying
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: MARIA NATALIA LAFOURCADE SILVA
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