Lydia Mendoza (Born 21st? May, 1916)

[john poole]

Lydia Mendoza, the Lark of the Border, - born one hundred years ago today, 21st May*, 1916 (Houston, Texas) [died 20th December, 2007]

Hardly any clips of Lydia on YouTube, but here she can be seen singing 'Mal Hombre' after two men have first talked about her for a couple of minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0jqwBq1reU

*or perhaps she was born on the 31st (wikipedia and Find a Grave), or maybe the 13th (National Endowment for the Arts), but the 21st is the date that appears most frequently, including in Garth's book 'More Miles Than Money'
http://www.garthcartwright.com/lydia-mendoza
http://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/ ... ican-sound