My beloved friends, I hope this letter finds you well and happy during this festive Holiday period. First of all I wanted to thank you for 2014, a year filled with the affection and support you showed me through social media and at the beautiful concerts that united us. There are no words to express how thankful I am for all that you give me and for the energy you fill me with – it represents an unstoppable force that keeps me moving forward. I hope and wish that your 2015 will be marvelous and bright, filled with good health, affection, friends, love, and positive energy. Beginning a new year, starting with a clean slate, is always a hopeful time, and the thought of commencing a new cycle overwhelms us with the desire to do things right. I wish with all my heart and soul that the situation in Mexico and across the globe will improve this coming year, that love inundates the hearts of those who have forgotten how to love their brothers, and that those who know how to love can find a way to collaborate to ensure that our world, the one each of us is living in for just a short while, is a happier, more peaceful, and fairer place for all. I think of you often and, on this day, embrace the opportunity to direct all my positive energy toward your dreams. I want your dreams to come true – may they fill you and those around you with bountiful happiness. I also want to take this opportunity to share my new single “Hasta La Raiz” with you. This song will be part of my new album. 2014 was truly a wonderful year in which I continued to play for Agustín Lara and his legacy, sharing the beauty of his songs with all of you, while working hard to put together my own original compositions once again. The artist in me harbored a strong desire to resume the process of composing and singing my own songs. Thanks to Agustín Lara, I toured the world and was able to compose songs in all types of places. Some were composed after ending a relationship that marked my heart, while others were composed on tour – in a hotel, in a van on the way to a concert, on the beach with a friend, sad and alone in my house, or in the company of angelic friends who surrounded me on this wonderful journey. In Colombia, Veracruz, Cuba, Las Vegas, and on every trip where I met with Inspiration, it guided me gently through that special miracle in which the tiniest nugget of music is born, without knowing what it will be or to where it will lead. 2014 was also a year in which I began a process of healing – not only my heart, but also my mind and my body. Last August, I decided to take a step back and cancel my shows for health reasons. I wanted to better understand who I was after what I had been through and who I was while living the tremendous experience of interpreting Agustín Lara’s music. My desire to go back to singing my own songs grew stronger in me each day, and I had to exercise patience as I waited for the right moment to do so. I felt the need to rediscover myself and dig as deep as possible, because what I wanted most was to return in an honest and pure way. That is how I began the beautiful journey of making this album. We spent months working to uncover the key ingredients that would bring life to these very special and intimate songs I put together these past two years. Tomorrow, on January 1st, 2015, we will release the Lyric Video for the first single and title track of my new record “Hasta La Raíz”. It is a song I wrote with Leonel García, my dear friend and colleague. It was a unique and wondrous experience in which Inspiration took hold of us in his house one afternoon. This song is a hymn to something that touches me every day and I feel to the core of my being. It is a song that takes me back to my home, to my roots, and to that which is truly important – the essence, the soul, the true spirit of all: Love. In these times in which countless things happen every second and the world evolves at a thousand miles per hour, I feel it is very important to remember who we are and where we come from, so that wherever the world takes us, we can always carry our own truth with us and protect it, to ensure that the outside, infinite universe does not lead us astray or confuse us. This song reminds me of the strength I carry with me, a strength I feel we all share –even when our tree grows very large, our roots never leave us, they exist and support us, always. There is true strength in them. When I travel away from home, I always find myself remembering moments of my childhood, those in which I played with Mother Earth and talked to nature. There was such simplicity there, and it is this simplicity that I aim to conserve amidst the seemingly complex world around us. With this record, for the first time I gave myself the opportunity to dig deep inside my feelings and let out whatever it was I found there. I traveled to the deepest confines, to the place where one finds their roots, cultivating a powerful connection with who I am and with this place from where I come. Connecting with Mexico and its powerful energy, connecting with my soul and my heart, connecting with my voice, letting it live and fly freely. I hope you will enjoy this beautiful Lyric Video we shot a couple of weeks ago on December 10th, with friends who let us use their bodies as our canvases. It was a very special experience and watching this video fills me with emotion. Stay tuned for the Official Video, to be released shortly. While you wait for the official link, please check out the short teaser below, in which you can experience a few seconds of the recording process for this album. I feel the flutter of a million butterflies in my stomach because for some months this song was just on my computer and that of those who worked with me, but as from the moment in which you watch this video, this song is no longer mine, this song is yours for your enjoyment. With luck, if it strikes you deep inside, you will connect with the feeling it hopes to express. I very much hope you enjoy it and that it fills you with energy to begin this new cycle in 2015. We are alive, so live life... HAPPY NEW YEAR. I love you very much and thank you for taking the time to read this letter. Natalia Lafourcade.
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 04:29:41 +0000
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