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| | Lydia Mendoza - Biography - AOL Music |
 | | Dubbed "La Alondra de la Frontera," singer Lydia Mendoza was an early legend of Tejano music. |
 | | Born May 21, 1916, in Houston, Texas, she was the product of a musical family; she performed with her parents and sister Francisca in a group, La Familia Mendoza, which found success in local variety shows, and her other sisters Maria and Juanita made up their own popular duet act, Las Hermanas Mendoza. |
 | | In 1928 Mendoza's father spotted an advertisement in a Spanish-language newspaper calling for musical groups, and they soon travelled to San Antonio to record for the Okeh label; their profits from the session funded a move to Detroit, Michigan in the pursuit of migrant labor. |
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