San Antonio native Jade Esteban Estrada is coming home in style. On Saturday, the

local-guy-made-good, now a sizzling-hot Latin pop singer, will headline the San Antonio PrideFest as grand marshal of the night parade.

     Estrada, who was born here to an Army officer and his wife, studied dance and acting in New York. He has toured the United States and Europe as an actor and singer, and two years back formed his own record label, Vicarious Records, to release his first CD, "Angel," in February 2001.

     Genre Magazine calls him "energetic and sizzling; the diva of Latin pop."

     PrideFest planners say they expect some 10,000 folks to come out for the Saturday parade.

     For Estrada, that should be a heck of a homecoming bash.

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