Lila Downs Shares Her Experience Struggling To Find Community In A Minnesota University

Lila Downs On Finding Community In College
Mexican Singer Lila Downs performance during a ceremony of Costa Rican-Mexican singer Chavela Vargas in her honor for her 90th birthday, on April 21, 2009, in Mexico city. AFP PHOTO/Ronaldo Schemidt (Photo credit should read Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images)
Mexican Singer Lila Downs performance during a ceremony of Costa Rican-Mexican singer Chavela Vargas in her honor for her 90th birthday, on April 21, 2009, in Mexico city. AFP PHOTO/Ronaldo Schemidt (Photo credit should read Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images)

For Lila Downs, being a Latina at the University of Minnesota wasn’t easy.

The recent Grammy winner and 1992 University alumna said her experience during school was sometimes “painful,” as she didn’t have many other Latinos to connect with.

“I didn’t really have a Latino community,” Downs said. “I felt like I was quite alone.”

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