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By Patty Hullett
For the Daily Light
Susan Rodriguez has had quite an interesting life. She was born in Dallas and lived on 10th Street in 1958 in the heart of the area known as Oak Cliff. Her single mom decided to move from east Oak Cliff to DeSoto in 1967. That was where she grew up, somewhat of a “tomboy,” riding horses and mini bikes.
Music was her way of life, until it wasn’t
In the 1960s, her mother became a piano teacher in DeSoto. Rodriguez says, “My mother taught me (and a number of children) how to play a piano, but, of course, I never liked to practice. My dad kind of left behind his trumpet, and I picked it up and started playing it in my 7th grade junior high band. All the rest of my school years – up until I graduated from DeSoto High School in 1976, I enjoyed playing the trumpet and being a part of the DeSoto Eagle Band. That music experience led Rodriguez to a partial music scholarship award to Stephen F. Austin University upon graduation, but she tur