A History of Women in Mariachi Music 1940's

 

Mexico City's first all-female group, "Mariachi Las Coronelas," was directed by Carlota Noriega in the mid-1940s.


Mariachi Las Coronelas, circa 1970.  (back, L to R: Juanita Torres Custodio, guitar; Maria Juarez Clemente, violin; Cecilia Moya Jaimes, trumpet; Yolanda Villareal Espinoza, violin; Hilda Lopez Soto, violin; Maria de los Angeles, violin.  front: Guadalaupe Hernandez, guitar; and Maria Carlota Noriega Marquez, guitarron).

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