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

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

A bilingual account based on interviews describes Lydia Mendoza's sixty-year singing career, from her childhood in the 1920s to the stroke that ended it in the