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Anna Estrada: Volando
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Vocalist Anna Estrada's Volando can be comfortably shelved in the Latin Jazz section of your record library, but Estrada herself more fancifully--and more accurately-- describes it as an exercise in crossing borders. Given the record's title ("volando" means “flying"), it's perhaps more a matter of flying over those boundaries. There are at least four such frontiers across which Estrada and her ensemble blissfully soar back and forth.The key dividing line is that one that separates Latin American from ...
read moreAnna Estrada: Obsesion
by Raul d'Gama Rose
When Elis Regina died, most Brazilians thought that the vacuum created by her loss could not be filled. Then along came Rosa Passos and Anna Estrada. The two vocalists did not jostle for a position in the vacant slot that Regina left behind, however both have filled it individually with the extraordinary breadth and scope of their talent. Passos stays within the Brazilian ethos more often than not, and if Obsesion is anything to go by, then Estrada appears to ...
read moreAnna Estrada: Sonando Vuelos
by Edward Blanco
As long as she could remember, Anna Estrada has always had a dream about flying and that dream finally takes flight with her exceptional debut Sonando Vuelos (Dreaming Flights), an eclectic blend of primarily Brazilian and Latin jazz music propelling the sound of bossa nova, samba and familiar Latin jazz rhythms to new heights. A few years ago, Estrada, a native of San Francisco and an actress in the Bay Area theatre community, began to pursue her lifelong dream of ...
read moreAnna Estrada Claims Her Place as a Singer with "Obsesión" CD
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
Obsesión, the powerful new release by Bay Area singer Anna Estrada, features a collection of love songs that suggest markers of an improbable, winding road that has led her back home. “Music was always part of my life,” says Anna. “But families have a tendency to have roles for each member. In my family the person who had the voice was my mother. So none of us would think of singing because my mother was the one who had the ...
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