''Mujer Divina – Homenaje a Agustín Lara'' (), is the fourth

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and first

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by Mexican recording artist

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. The project is a tribute to Mexican singer and songwriter

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and is composed of songs by him featuring different guest singers such as Adrián Dárgelos from

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, León Larregui from Zoé,

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, Adanowsky, Emmanuel del Real from

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, Ismael Salcedo from Los Daniels,

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, Leonel García,

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and Francisco Familiar from DLD. The album was released on September 18, 2012. The project was accompanied by a DVD of live versions of the songs of the album. A live version of the album recorded at the Sala Telefónica from the Centro Cultural Roberto Cantoral was released on February 11, 2014. At the

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, the album won

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and

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while Carlos Campón, Ernesto García, Noah Georgeson, Demian Nava, Sebastían Schon, César Sogbe and José Blanco received a nomination for Best Engineered Album as engineers of the album.

Background

After the release of her previous projects, ''

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'' (2007) and '' Hu Hu Hu'' (2009), Lafourcade felt the need to explore new music with already existing songs instead of original songs. When working with Alondra de la Parra for a performance in

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, she started to search songs from different composers to perform and end up finding a deep connection to

's work. The name of the album, according to Lafourcade comes from the way women were the main inspiration for Lara and how his songs made her "appreciate the beauty of women and femininity". The album is composed of songs from Lara featuring guest singers, to balance the themes of femininity, Lafourcade decided that the guest singers would be mostly male.

Track listing

All tracks are written by

, except where noted.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

External links

Sitio oficial.
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