Silvana Estrada finds strength amid heartache on latest album: ‘I’m interested in finding the light inside dark things’

“For me, this album, like maybe all albums, is an attempt to understand the inner world. That world gives you the strength to fight or to leave,” Silvana Estrado says of “Marchita.” | Edwin Erazo Photo

“Marchita” (“Withered”), her breakthrough disc released in January, finds Mexican singer-songwriter Silvana Estrada in the full bloom of romantic loss.

With titles such as “Te Guardo” (“I Keep You”) and “Tristeza” (“Sadness”), Estrada, who’s 24, admits “Marchita” is “all about heartache and longing. … I needed to make this album,” she said. Though she was “invested in the journey of coming to terms” with her first heartbreak, she chose to concentrate instead on how anguish can lead to emotional growth.