Daniel Valdez
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Emerging from a Chicano activist background, Valdez grew up in a farm-worker family, joined Cesar Chavez’s United Farm Workers in 1966, and helped launch the Teatro Campesino with his brother Luis, while his 1973 solo album Mestizo became the first major-label Chicano record. He moved into film and stage, appearing in Which Way Is Up? (1977) and The China Syndrome (1979), then earned acclaim as He…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
