Natalia Lafourcade - how does she pronounce her first name?

Question

So, I really like this artist. I was talking with a native speaker of Spanish, and we were discussing music artists that we like. He told me that her first name was pronounced na-ta-lí-a. But, I never see it written with the tilde over the "i", so to me it is pronounced na-tal-ya. So is there a diphthong at the end of her name or not? And are there differences among Spanish speakers about how "Natalia" is pronounced or not?

Answer 1

The name is pronounced Na-tá-lia. There's no written accent on this word because although the stress is on the second to last syllable, it ends in a vowel. (Grave words are not accented if they end in the letter n, s or a vowel).