Nacha mendez biography of michael

GROWING UP, I must have had some kind of learning disability. I didn’t speak, and I was not able to read.

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But I was never diagnosed.

MY GRANDMOTHER was a guitarist. In the summer, while my parents were working, she would take care of us. There was always a guitar at home, and she would play it and teach me songs.

IT WAS THROUGH GUITAR and art—drawing pictures and playing music— that I started to feel like I could see the world in different ways.

When I was 10 years old, I started singing, too, and I wrote my first song.

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It was always music that brought it all home for me.

IN JUNIOR HIGH, at talent shows, I would win first place. It was very encouraging.

BUT WHEN I GOT to high school, I was still not communicating.

I had a great speech teacher who really helped me overcome the shyness and helped me to speak in public.

WHEN I MOVED to Santa Fe, in 1978, I got together with a bunch of creative women in the