Career
"Échame a mi la culpa" and "Amarga navidad" were some of her greatest hits. Tariácuri, from whom Mendoza received her nickname, was an indigenous leader of the Purépecha people, who inhabited present-day Michoacán. She gained notice as a solo singer when she began to sing for the XEW radio station in 1954.
She recorded a total of 36 albums.
Through the majority of her career she was accompanied by the Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán, and recorded numerous rancheras and boleros 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.