Search Results for: Lydia Mendozas Life In Music

Lydia Mendoza began her legendary musical career as a child in the 1920s, singing for pennies and nickels on the streets of downtown San Antonio. She lived most

"The Strachwitz Frontera Collection is the largest repository of commercially produced Mexican and Mexican American vernacular recordings in existence. It conta

The story of renowned Mexican-American singer, Lydia Mendoza, and her family is not the usual show-business rags-to-riches tale, but really the struggle of a Me

Explores the resounding musical performances of Mexican American women such as Chelo Silva, Eva Ybarra, Eva Garza, and Selena within Tejano/Chicano music