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For me, music has become like I actually have a song that says it, it has become my religion, has become my master, my boss.

And that has a lot of meaning in my life.

And people around me, they know that, they know that we're working for music, because music is a medicine.

From Futuro Miria and PRX, it's Latino USA, I'm Maria Inujosa.

Today, Mexican singer-songwriter Natalia La Furcade invites us to seek refuge in music.

It took a while to get here, but Natalia La Furcade wanted her latest album to be a total celebration of life, with all of its vulnerability and all of its joy.

And because it's such a special album, she decided that it deserved a proper debut of its own.

So, Natalia chose to share the Toda Las Flores at a special concert on one of the most iconic stages in the world, Carnegie Hall in New York City.

And I, dear listener, had the pleasure of being there.

Now, Carnegie Hall is huge. Natalia is pretty small, but she lit up and took up the entire space.

She performed most of the new album right there, premiering it live, and she also performed some selected songs from her 20-year career.

She brought the sounds of Mexico onto the stage and also had some special guests, including David Byrne from the Talking Heads and the legendary Omar Portuondo, a founding member of Cuba's Buena Vista Social Park.

Throughout the evening, Natalia sang about caring for her own inner flowers, and she encouraged us to tend to our own inner gardens as well.

The Toda Las Flores is Natalia's first album of all original new music in seven years.

She wrote it during a time of intense isolation at her house in Beracruz at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Forced to slow down, Natalia found herself listening to the sounds of her beloved Viera of the Earth, like the Flutter of the Hummingbirds in her garden, and the waves crashing along her favorite beach.

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