"Silvana Estrada spent 25 years not knowing how to get angry, she says. That cost me so much energy and dignity. Sadness, though, she had always understood: I live with her very close to me. Now 28, the Mexican singer-songwriter grew up outside Veracruz, a city on the Gulf of Mexico, witnessing violence from so many angles: rampant femicide, narcoculture, environmental attacks on the coffee plantations and rivers of her home."
"As a lonely teenager, she discovered Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald. They helped guide the darkness she felt and introduced her to vocal improvisation. Estrada, born to a family of luthiers, started making her own music, played on a four-string Venezuelan cuatro and inspired by Mexican son jarocho (folk music). The title of her acclaimed 2022 debut, Marchita, translates to withered; the record offered a spare, devastating, deeply poetic account of first love gone awry."
Silvana Estrada spent 25 years not knowing how to get angry, which cost her energy and dignity. She grew up outside Veracruz, witnessing rampant femicide, narcoculture, and environmental attacks on coffee plantations and rivers. Sadness remained a constant companion, while teenage encounters with Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald opened a path to vocal improvisation. Born into a family of luthiers, she began composing and performing on a four-string Venezuelan cuatro, drawing from son jarocho. Her 2022 debut Marchita (withered) presented spare, poetic accounts of lost love and won a Latin Grammy; afterwards she sought to reveal humor and broader facets of herself beyond sorrow.
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