Maria Luisa Anido Gonzalez was bom on 26 January 1907 in Moron, a suburb situated 20 km west of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her father, Juan Carlos Anido, was an aficionado of the guitar and music in general. He gave Mimita her first guitar lessons when she was five years old, supported her career and accompanied her on her tours through Argentina and Uruguay. Juan Carlos Anido first published the magazine 'La Guitarraf in 1923. Emilio Pujol, Regino Sainz de la Maza, Josefina Robledo, Domingo Prat and Miguel Llobet visited his house. Domingo Prat (who had studied with Tarrega and Llobet and was the first to take the Spanish guitar school to the Rio de la Plata) gave lessons to Mimita and organized her first concerts when she was just nine years old. When she was eleven, in May 1918, she played in 'La Argentina' (a prestigious concert hall in Buenos Aires). For that concert, Anido's father bought her the Torres guitar that had belonged to Tarrega and Llobet. Miguel Llobet became her next teacher, and Anido and Llobet used to go on tour playing as a guitar duo. In an interview for Classical Guitar Magazine (August 1988) Mimita said: “Llobet was a very amusing teacher; he had a great sense of humour It was possible to regard him more as a companion than as a teacher. We travelled a lot around Argentina, with my father”. Gradually Mimita gained popularity and became known as “La Primera Dama de la Guitarra”.
When her father died in 1933, there was a long silence in her performing career till 1950. It was her mother who, because ot her traditions, could not accept that she travelled alone. So she stayed at home and taught at the Conservatorio Nacional de Musica in Buenos Aires and at the Universidad del Literal in Rosario.
Mimita's international career took off after her mother's death. She thought: “as the world exists and is big, I will try to know it”. In 1952 she played concerts in Great Britain, Austria, France, and Italy, in a series that included artists such as Karajan and Menuhin. The audiences and critics alike acclaimed her extraordinary talent. She would go on to repeat her European tours on a yearly basis and even extended them to Russia and Rumania. In 1954 she visited Japan and later the Philippines. She also visited several countries in Latin America, always returning to Argentina, where she played the first Argentinian performance of the Concierto de Aranjuez. In 1976 she left her country out of protest against the military government. She stayed first in Palma de Mallorca and then in Barcelona. She played in Switzerland, Germany and Spain, recorded for radios and for an LP, gave lessons, and adjudicated in competitions. The Cuban composer and guitarist Leo Brouwer invited her to play in Cuba in 1982, 1984 and 1986. In 1987 she was asked to conduct a guitar class in the Institute Superior de Arte de Havana and to be a member ot the jury ot the International Guitar Competition of Havana.
Even at the age of eighty, she played a wonderful concert that included some of her own compositions such as Aire Nortena and El Misachica.
She died in Tarragona, Spain, on 4 June 1996.