Born to a family of musicians and luthiers, Estrada discovered the four-stringed cuatro in her parents’ music studio and instantly fell in love with its sweet sound. The cuatro is a staple of a type of Venezuelan music called “joropo,” but she’s found new and brilliant uses for it in her own music. She studied at a jazz conservatory and learned the standards, but the songs that remind her of her home in Coatepec kept finding their way back to her. Estrada has been… read more