Overview
- Ortiz won three Grammys for Yanga and Dzonot, including Best Classical Compendium, Best Choral Performance, and Best Contemporary Classical Composition.
- At a UNAM news conference, she criticized insufficient institutional will in Mexico and cited the sudden disappearance of the Orquesta Boca del Río as emblematic.
- Yanga grew from research on Gaspar Yanga and evokes Afro‑Mexican heritage through percussion instruments of African origin.
- The project was commissioned and recorded with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel in the United States rather than in Mexico.
- She stressed that hearing top‑level performances matters more than trophies and said the visibility should open doors for Latin American and women composers, while backing artists who used the Grammys to protest ICE policies.