Mexican Singer Silvana Brings Her Genre-defying Music to San Jose Jazz Summer Fest

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🗓️ 12 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Mexican singer Silvana Estrada and the San Jose Jazz Summer Fest have at least one thing in common: they both defy genre. The 25-year-old singer from the coastal Mexican state of Veracruz is now on tour promoting her latest album, “Marchita.” Estrada’s music is rooted in jazz, but spans a fusion of musical styles. The summer jazz fest takes a similar approach by making jazz the base, but layering in dozens of other styles such as blues and R&B, salsa, cumbia and folk music from around the world. Estrada is one of headliners who will perform at the 12-stage jazz festival this weekend. She joins us to preview the festival and to talk about how she both embraces and rejects musical traditions. Guests: Silvana Estrada, Mexican singer, will perform at the San Jose Jazz Summer Fest 2022 on Aug. 13. Betto Arcos, music journalist, curated the Latin Tropical Stage for the San Jose Jazz Summer Fest 2022. Brendan Rawson, executive director, San Jose Jazz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:12.9	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal. The national news continues to take wild twists and turns, but here at home, it's still Friday, it's still summertime.
1:32.6	That makes it the season for music festivals, and today we previewed this weekend San Jose Jazz Summerfest with one of our favorite artists who will be playing there.
1:40.3	We're joined live by Silvana Estrada, who will be singing for us this morning
1:45.8	as we talk about her new album, Marchita. Stay'm Alexis Madrigal. So Silvan Estrada is 25 released her third album this year and is touring around the United States, including the San Jose Jazz Summerfest, where she'll be playing this weekend.
2:25.9	She's from a family of musicians in the state of Veracruz in Mexico, and she was kind enough to join us from a studio at K-U-E-R in Salt Lake City.
2:34.8	Big shout out to the engineers there.
2:36.4	Thank you so much so that we can have a little live show for you all.
2:40.2	Thank you so much for joining us, Silvana.
2:43.0	Hi, thank you so much for having us.
2:45.7	Why don't we start off with a song?
2:48.7	Why don't you tell us what you want to play? I think we're going to start with Al-Awa-Lamil, which is a song that I wrote many years ago.
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