LydiaMendoza

"Lydia Mendoza made her first record while still a child in a make-shift recording studio in a San Antonio hotel room in 1928. Six years later, after the enormous hardship of migrant farm work, during the depths of the Great Depression, Lydia returned with her family to San Antonio to become a "star" when she recorded "Mal hombre" (Evil Man) as a solo singer accompanied only by her twelve-string guitar. Lydia Mendoza has endured much like the Carter Family has in American country music. She became known as "La Cancionera de los Pobres" (The Songstress of the Poor) but she did not limit her…