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Do we like Natalia Lafourcade?

Our score: 8 out of 10. Nothing harmful in her words or acts, plus years of fundraising and speaking up, but the record on LGBTQ+ topics is thin.

Natalia Lafourcade is one of Mexico's biggest singer-songwriters. She grew up in Coatepec, Veracruz, and her career has gone from teen pop to deep dives into Mexican folk traditions. Her work has increasingly been about roots, home and community rather than celebrity.

The best example is Un Canto por México. The fundraising album project put all its proceeds towards rebuilding the Centro de Documentación del Son Jarocho in Veracruz, a cultural centre wrecked in the 2017 earthquake. Its second volume closed the project in 2021. She told the Grammys site she now sees music as a form of activism.

On the harm test, we found nothing nasty. In the 2025 interview with The World, she said she and her band wondered whether it was safe to stay in the US during immigration raids. She also noted that fans were taking real risks just to come to her shows, which is the sort of thing you want to hear from a touring Latin artist right now.

She has put her name to environmental causes too. In 2022 she joined a video campaign against a section of Mexico's Mayan Train project, saying native species were losing their homes. When the then-president suggested the artists were misinformed, she said on Instagram that nobody had paid or motivated her to speak. Her own father publicly backed the project, which made for an awkward family moment.

On women, she has described the song La Llorona as the voice of women's pain and stressed that women should support each other. The one smudge on the good-person side is from 2023, when she was asked about a collaborator facing allegations. She declined to give an opinion on those allegations but said her own dealings with him had been respectful. That is a cautious non-answer, not a defence of anything, and the allegations are his, not hers.

The honest gap is LGBTQ+ issues. We found no statement from her either way, harmful or supportive, so we can't give her credit there. Her touring and music have also not been tied to any dodgy company or culture-war crowd we could find.