Nacha mendez biography

Nacha Mendez is regarded as the state’s reigning diva of Latin music, having won this year’s New Mexico Music Award in that category. She’s known for her ability to blend styles and shift from one to another on a dime: On any given night in Santa Fe, her audience may hear tango, bolero, ranchera, cumbia, salsa, bossa nova, and cha-cha—or two or more of these styles at once.

Born Marghreta Cordero, in Chicago, and raised in the small border town of La Unión, Mendez has been performing throughout the state on and off since 1978.

She was a member of the first all-girl punk band in New Mexico, the Quadrasexuals, formed in 1980. She then caught the New Wave bug, and was a part of the seminal bands Madonna Moderna and Venus Envy. After moving to New York for a short while, she returned to New Mexico in the early 1990s, and began performing again.

After meeting composer Robert Ashley and touring with the company for h