You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs,

and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.

I'm Rishi Keishkeh Hurway.

Silvana Estrada is a singer, songwriter, and producer from Veracruz, Mexico.

She won the Latin Grammy for Best New Artist in 2022, and she's

been nominated for three others, including for her song, Gomo unpaharo, which is the song that we

talked about for this episode. It's from her second album, which came out in 2025, but she started

writing the song several years before that. So we talked about all the different versions of the song and a couple versions of Sylvana herself

that emerged throughout the process.

T' can't like a pacharo in the bruma, and all what we've we've left. I'm I'm I'm Silvana

I'm

Silvana I'm Sylvana Estrada Beberido.

Thank you so much for sending me all the voice memos and demos that you made for this song.

I have a lot, no?

I would love to start with the first one, which says it's from October 21st, 2019.

I remember that day perfectly.

In the morning, I was rehearsing for a Dia de los Mueros show,

and at the middle of the rehearsal,

I was so sad I started to cry in a song

because I was dealing with a really, really long,

difficult relationship, and I was really long, difficult relationship.

And I was just very, very sad and heartbroken.

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