Amalia Mendoza García (10 July 1923 – 11 June 2001),
Career
Tariácuri, from whom Mendoza received her nickname, was an Indigenous leader of the Purépecha people, who inhabited present-day Michoacán. The nickname was used before in her brothers' musical group (Trío Tariácuri) and in her own duo (Las Tariacuritas) with her sister, Perla. She gained notice as a solo singer when she began to sing for the
XEW-AM radio station in 1954.
She recorded 36 albums.
In 1962, she won the Macuilxóchitl Award for best female
bolero singer of
ranchera music (
bolerista de ranchero).
Through the majority of her career she was accompanied by the
Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán, and recorded numerous
and
by José Alfredo Jiménez, Cuco Sánchez, José Ángel Espinoza, Gabriel Ruiz, and Tomás Méndez.
She died four weeks and one day before her 78th birthday.
Discography
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La Tariácuri (RCA Victor, 1958)
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La Tariácuri Vol. II (RCA Victor, 1959)
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La Tariácuri Vol. III (RCA Victor, 1960) (re-issued on CD as Amalia Vol. 1)
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La viuda abandonada (Vol. IV) (RCA Victor, 1961) (re-issued on CD as Mucho corazón... y otros éxitos más)
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Boleros con Amalia Mendoza (RCA Victor, 1962)
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Las canciones que siempre quise grabar (RCA Victor, 1963)
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México en la voz de Amalia Mendoza (RCA Victor, 1965)
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Las tres señoras (1995) (with Lola Beltrán and Lucha Villa)
Additionally, records in the 1970s and 1980s on Discos GAS.
With her brother Juan Mendoza
Filmography
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