SAN MARCOS, Texas ā Three generations of family had their first look at the Texas State University exhibit devoted to San Antonio's First Lady of Song, a title bestowed by another first lady, Lady Bird Johnson, to Rosita Fernandez.
They came to her," said Ramon Hernandez, a music journalist and historian who curated the exhibit with much of the memorabilia given to him by Fernandez, herself.
Hernandez was there as Diana Rosa Almaguer-Orellana, Fernandez's only daughter, saw the exhibit along with her son, Mario Orellana, Fernandez's grandson, and his 4-year-old daughter, Sonoma, Fernandez's great-grandaughter, who Fernandez did not live to see.
"She conquered the music industry in Texas when it was almost 98 percent male-dominated, " Hernandez said.
"I really learned how much she meant to San Antonio and the world of music," Orellana said.