The culture shifted somewhat in the 1970s, when the introduction of mariachi programs in U.S. public schools, particularly in California and Texas, gave girls new opportunities to learn and perform. Even so, skilled female musicians often found themselves competing for just one or two coveted spots in an otherwise male lineup.<\/p>\n
For many families, mariachi is the soundtrack to life\u2019s milestones, from baby showers and communions to weddings and funerals. At 13, Mar\u00edn found her calling at a family party. \u201cA few days before the party, I said to my mom, I feel that something in my life is missing. So, we go to this party and the band walks in, and they\u2019re kids my age, but they\u2019re playing Vicente Fern\u00e1ndez, who is my idol,\u201d she recalls, referring to the Mexican singer and actor. \u201cI remember seeing them play, turning to my dad and saying that\u2019s what\u2019s missing: I need to be a mariachi.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The culture shifted somewhat in the 1970s, when the introduction of mariachi programs in U.S. public schools, particularly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17748,42447,82,84,83,162298,19756],"class_list":["post-481423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-living","tag-onecolumn","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-textabovecenterfullbleed","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}