Me Voy

Julieta Venegas is the most commercially successful and critically respected Mexican female artist of her generation — a Tijuana native who has spent twenty years writing songs that are simultaneously accessible and musically sophisticated, accordion-driven and Latin-pop-inflected.

Me Voy, the lead single from her 2006 album Limón y Sal, won the Latin Grammy for Record of the Year and became one of the defining pop songs of the decade in Latin America. The accordion arrangement is distinctive enough to be instantly associated with Venegas.

Venegas's willingness to use the accordion as a lead instrument in commercial pop was itself a statement — an insistence on roots and texture over the smooth production typical of Latin pop of the era.