Ángela Aguilar may be an elegant interpreter of música Mexicana , a genre that her family has dominated for generations.

Yet when I sit across from the 21-year-old singer at a dining hall on Olvera Street, she exudes a commanding diva spirit that is all her own.

It is a fierceness that surfaces most prominently when the conversation turns to the business of music, her family’s legacy and her recent marriage to young Mexican singer-songwriter Christian Nodal .

When it comes to her latest album, “Nadie Se Va Como Llegó,” Aguilar’s 12-song set of romantic ballads, it’s clear the Latin Grammy-nominated singer is delving into music rooted in heartache — but she insists that the latest songs, colored by the agony of unrequited love, have nothing to do with her personal life.

“I’m not

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