Guitarist Sonia De Los Santos hails from Mexico, where as a child she was exposed to different musical influences. In Auguste Renoir’s “Young Spanish Woman with a Guitar,” De Los Santos sees echoes of her younger self. Her song “Sueña” is an ode to dreams.

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Image credit: Auguste Renoir, “Young Spanish Woman with a Guitar” (detail), 1898, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, 1970.17.76

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