Saxophonist Pahul Cohen, husband and life partner of singer Lila Downs, dies in Oaxaca

Oaxaca de Juarez.— This Wednesday night he died in oaxaca american saxophonist Paul CohenFrom New York and husband of Mixtec singer-songwriter Lila Downswith whom he has two children.

The death of the 69-year-old musician and artistic director, who has been a key player in the career of Downs, the daughter of a Mixtec mother and an American father, was confirmed by “Una Sangre”, the singer’s Official Fan Club, whose members mourned the loss and sent condolences to the family.

“The One Bloods join in the grief of our beloved Lila Downs and the entire family. Our prayers,” they reported.

Paul Cohen has been defined by Lila as her “life partner”, whom she met in the United States when she obtained a degree in Anthropology from the University of Minnesota and later they met again in New York, when the interpreter began her path in music at the join as a vocalist in a local percussion group called The Yodoyuxi Cadets.

Lila Downs’ first record material, for example, entitled “Ofrenda” was produced in conjunction with Cohen and since then the saxophonist has accompanied Lila throughout her career.

Recently, in an interview with THE UNIVERSAL On her return to the stage in Oaxaca after a two-year hiatus from the pandemic, Lila Downs revealed that together with Cohen she was already preparing new studio songs, focused on music. regional mexican musicbut with the authorship of new talents.

“We are already working on new songs, of regional Mexican music, with works by young composers and working with my songs, my own, we are working on it,” he said.