When Shea was a student at Cal State Fullerton, she caught the attention of Latin Jazz icon Arturo Sandoval who offered to take her in as his student along with a full-ride scholarship to Florida International University, where she studied jazz performance. “We thought it was a great idea and she does a great job.” “A couple years ago, one of my girls started painting our faces,” Shea told Mommy In Los Angeles® Magazine referring to one of her fellow musicians. By commemorating the Dia de Los Muertos celebration with cultural pride, she’s highlighting the importance of this tradition to an international audience that visits the Disneyland Resort on a daily basis. She has broken barriers in a male-dominated industry and has received praise for her trumpet-playing skills and leadership in directing successful mariachi bands. The Irish-Italian mom of a young boy is the founder of Grammy Award-winning Mariachi Divas de Cindy Shea, a nationally recognized female-only mariachi group based in Los Angeles. Shea will likely be performing with a colorful sugar skull face painting in support of Disney’s upcoming release of its highly-anticipated Pixar animated film, Coco. If you visit Plaza de la Familia, a special exhibit at the Disney California Adventure theme park, you may to feel the need to start dancing as soon as Cindy Shea picks up her trumpet and starts playing to the tune of El Son de la Negra, a popular mariachi song. Mommy In Los Angeles® Magazine reached out to three of them: Many Los Angeles moms are proudly celebrating this unique tradition and whether intentionally or not, they’re raising awareness about this distinctive aspect of Mexican culture. In Los Angeles, the city has embraced this tradition and welcomed Dia de Los Muertos with jovial and picture-worthy events and art exhibits, like the one currently on display in Downtown LA’s Grand Park. 84 “Belisario Domínguez Palencia” in Mexico City. Life and the afterlife are both celebrations,” said Gabriela Espinosa Aguilar, a high school history teacher at Escuela Secundaria Técnica no. “It’s a very unique way of honoring our ancestors and showing our children that when it comes to death, there’s nothing to be afraid of. People dress up and highlight the bright and vivid colors of the culture into their observances.
In Mexico, people honor the dead by building private altars or shrines in their homes with ofrendas (offerings) that have candles, decorations, favorite meals, and photo memorabilia of the deceased. Several centuries later, the celebration turned into a holiday celebrated annually on November 2. It was a month-long festivity that started on the ninth month of the Aztec calendar (around early September) with large feasts, celebratory dances and massive gatherings. Mexico’s celebration of the dead dates back to pre-Colombian cultures. These Moms Bring Life to The Day of the Dead
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