Rosita FernáNdez

Dubbed "San Antonio's First Lady of Song" by Lady Bird Johnson, Rosita Fernandez was a pioneering force in the development of the Texas border music later dubbed tejano. In addition to her prodigious recording schedule, she also enjoyed a feature film career, and was one of the first Latin American performers to regularly appear on national television. One of 16 children, Fernandez was born in Monterrey, Mexico, on April 12, 1918. After the family relocated across the border to San Antonio six years later, she began her professional singing career at the age of nine, joining h...