Balas y Chocolate

Pecados y Milagros (2011), Downs embarked on the Pecados y Milagros World Tour [es]. The tour visited America, Europe, Asia a number of new venues. In 2012, the singer commented that she was beginning to compose songs for her next album. In May 2014, Downs confirmed that she had started working on her eighth studio album, saying that her next album would be titled Balas de chocolate ('chocolate bullets'). But she refrained from disclosing the official name and collaborators, commenting that it was inspired by the Day of the Dead as it was a very important date to her indigenous grandmother and for remembering the death of her father when she was 16 years old. In June 2014, Downs confirmed that she would begin recording the album the following month. She said she would use it to remember her childhood, which was marked by various musical influences, among them The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. Later she released titles of the album and some of its songs. She explained that the name represents the Mexican people living between bullets and excesses, and also uses chocolate as a symbol of the people's strength, similar to the importance of corn in Mayan and Olmec culture.^[3]

Live Nation by Yahoo! Screen during a concert that featured the singer on August 11, 2014, at the House of Blues in Chicago. On February 3, 2015, the song "Humito de Copal