[5][6] In 1976, assuming that the dancer's life was short professionally, Mendiola proposed to one of her ballet colleagues, Mayte Mateos, to form a musical duo.

[5] Inspired by the popular Kessler sisters and with Paco Bermúdez as their representative,[7] the duo Venus was born, debuting under this stage name on Enrique Martí Maqueda's program Palmarès.

[17] When Fernando García de la Vega was preparing the series La Comedia Musical Española[18] for RTVE and Mendiola was invited to be part of four of the musical episodes in the series; Las Leandras[19] with Paloma San Basilio, Róbame Esta Noche[20] with María José Cantudo, Luna de Miel en El Cairo[21] with Teresa Rabal, and El Sobre Verde.

[22] For her work in La Comedia Musical Española Mendiola received a Premios Revelación in the television category, at a gala organized by the Vanity nightclub.

[23] It is at this moment when Mendiola decided to re-create the duo that she founded at the end of the seventies, and for this new line-up she invited an old colleague from the RTVE ballet; Maryse Pérez.

Pérez had to leave the duo due to a health problem that prevented her from dancing; and Mendiola has chosen the Madrid-native singer Cristina Sevilla as a stage partner.

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the original formation they released the album I Belong To Your Heart,[37] produced by Luis Rodríguez for the Team 33[38] record label.