"It was such an emotional night," recalls Martinez of that first event. "We felt so empowered by this musical expression. The bad news with doing concerts as fundraisers is that mainly, you don't make a lot of money. It wasn't successful as a fundraiser, but it was, in terms of creating a home for this music."
A multi-instrumentalist, activist and educator known offstage as Cecilia Cassandra Peña-Govea, she's forged a sensuous femmetón sound that blends folkloric Mexican idioms like corrido, cumbia and mariachi with contemporary beats.
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