Mexican singer Silvana Estrada is one of her country’s most promising young talents. At 24, she’s already gotten wide acclaim on music that relies on little more than her voice and her small, four-string instrument. The World’s Latin America correspondent Jorge Valencia sat down with Estrada in Mexico City to talk about her upcoming debut album “Marchita,” and her first headlining tour across the US.
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