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Lydia Mendoza — The Lark Of The Border — Honored With Historical Marker
Lydia Mendoza, known as “La Alondra de la Fronteras (The Lark of the Border),” would have turned 103 on May 31. She was honored the day after her birthday with a historical marker at her gravesite at San Fernando Catholic Cemetery No.
2 in San Antonio.
Her powerful voice and unconventionally tuned 12-string guitar struck a chord with her audience, whether she was singing in the fields, or in plazas, or performing on the radio.
Hector Saldaña, curator of the Texas Music Collection at the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University in San Marcos, called her a pioneer.
Credit Lauren Terrazas / Texas Public Radio
“I think if you look at her with her 12-string guitar, she’s really closer to the blues of, say, Lead Belly or Robert Johnson,” Saldaña said.
“She’s singing about everyday life, and she’s doing it on her own.”
Saldaña said Mendoza presented a view of Mexican-American life that wasn’t festiv