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Natalia Lafourcade needed to escape her fame. So, she moved to Ottawa 11%
By Sabina Wex0%
6/18/2026, 8:23:22 PM
Keywords: Natalia Lafourcade, Tom Power
BS Summary: This article contains 17 faulty reasoning types, including Halo Effect, Post Hoc (False Cause), and Optimism Bias, with Ambiguity (Equivocation) as the most egregious example at 25.8% saturation with 83 hits. Analysis detected 412 faulty-reasoning hits from 322 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 28.5% and a BS Rank of 11% (18,160 of 20,371 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 89.10% of the article peer group.
From her days in a teen pop band to her 2002 breakout hit, En el 2000, Natalia Lafourcade was one of the most famous musicians in Mexico in the early aughts.
She couldn’t even walk down the street.
So, in 2007, the singer-songwriter decided to escape — to Ottawa, Ont.
“I needed to go to a place where nobody knows me,” she tells Q’s Tom Power.
“I love music, you know?
But I don't know if I really love fame.
Like, fame is another thing.
It can be very difficult to manage.”
While Lafourcade was in Ottawa, she went to school and jammed with friends.
Nobody stopped her on the street.
“That period is probably one of the happiest moments in my life,” she says.
“And that was probably the most productive year that I have, in terms of writing songs — creating, doing things with the music.”
Since her hiatus in Canada, Lafourcade has become even more of a bonafide superstar.
She has won 20 Latin Grammys, the most ever awarded to a female musician.
She also incorporates traditional Mexican folk music into her pop songs.
This has made her not only beloved as a musician, but as an inspiration for resistance.
During last year’s U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in Los Angeles, Mexican Americans used Lafourcade’s music to take a stand.
They would upload videos and pictures of their immigrant parents onto social media, and play her 2015 song, Hasta la Raíz, in the background.
“I think that's when the song becomes a service to everyone.
It’s not just my voice, it becomes everyone's voice,” she says.
“The song says, ‘I am not yours anymore, I am just a song that flies away and goes through different houses and families and places.’
And it's [the] people's song, it's everyone's.”
Interview with Natalia Lafourcade produced by Vanessa Greco.
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