• Title: SINGER LILA DOWNS. ALSO, 2501 MIGRANTS.
• Guest: Lila Downs.
• Additional Guests: Alejandro Santiago.
• Host: Chelis López
• Date: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2010
• Description: This Holiday edition features two pre-taped interviews: SINGER LILA DOWNS. The daughter of a Mixtec singer and a U.S. professor, Mexican-American singer and composer speaks about the deeper sources of her inspiration.
• Genre: News
• Location: San Francisco, CA
• Program Number: 6281
• Producer: Samuel Orozco
• Progam Number: 6281
• Publisher: Radio Bilingüe
• Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License
• Subject: Art and Culture
• Year: 2010
• Program Name: la_101223.mp3
• Length: 59:09 minutes (54.17 MB)
• Format: Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

This Holiday edition features two pre-taped interviews:

SINGER LILA DOWNS. The daughter of a Mixtec singer and a U.S. professor, Mexican-American singer and composer speaks about the deeper sources of her inspiration, including the power of being aware of her indigenous roots and the renewed energy brought by her baby son, Benito.

Guest: Lila Downs, singer and songwriter, www.liladowns.com.

ALSO, 2501 MIGRANTS. A pre-taped conversation with Oaxacan sculptor and painter Alejandro Santiago about the 2501 life-statues he and his team built to pay tribute to each migrant who left his village. His monumental project was documented in the film “2501 Migrants: A Journey.”

Guest: Alejandro Santiago, sculptor and painter, Oaxaca City, México. www.2501migrants-themovie.com