California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA) in the Davidson Library at the University of California, Santa Barbara.(Eduardo Guerrero papers)(Brief Article)

California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA) in the Davidson Library at the University of California, Santa Barbara (Sal Guerena, Director) has received the papers of Eduardo "Lalo" Guerrero, the eighty-four-year-old singer and composer known as the "Father of Chicano Music." Guerrero claims many accolades, including awards from the Mexican Cultural Institute and United Farm Workers. In December 1996, he was awarded a National Medal of the Arts from President Clinton at a White House ceremony. Born in Tucson on Christmas Eve 1916 to Mexican immigrant parents, he had five songs in the top ten on the Latin music charts in the U.S. in the fifties and sixties. In 1978, four of his songs were featured in the Luis Valdez hit film and musical Zoot Suit. Guerrero's love and concern for Chicanos had him ...