Chavela Vargas

Chavela Vargas is a mexican-costa rican singer born in San Joaquín de Flores Costa Rica. She mostly sang rancheras, a folkloric musical form widely popular in Mexico. She dressed as a man, smoked cigars, drank heavily, carried a gun and was known for her characteristic red poncho. In a Colombian television interview in 2000, she openly admitted she was a lesbian. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Pedro Infante (left) with Jorge Negrete (right) The ranchera is a genre of the traditional music of Mexico. ... Typical Andes poncho in a flea market in Genoa, Italy Clear Plastic Rain Poncho modeled by Mark Allyn in Seattle, Washington A poncho is a simple garment designed to keep the body warm, or if made from an impermeable material, to keep dry during rain. ... A lesbian is a woman who is romantically and sexually attracted only to other women. ...

Vargas was born Isabel Vargas Lizano in Costa Rica on April 17, 1919. At only 14, she fled the country because of its lack of opportunities for starting a musical career, seeking refuge in a more sophisticated Mexico. For many years she sang on the streets but in her thirties she became a professional singer. is the 107th day of the year (108th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ...

Her first album was released in 1961 and she has recorded over eighty albums. She was partly retired in the late 1970s but came back in 1991, and debuted at Carnegie Hall in 2003 aged 83, at the behest and promotion of Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, a long-time admirer and personal friend of Vargas. She is featured in many of his films, in both song and video. Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street. ... Perico Almodovar Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (pronounced ) (born September 24, 1949 in Calzada de Calatrava, Spain) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer. ...

Vargas recently appeared in the 2002 Julie Taymor film Frida, singing "La Llorona". Her classic "Paloma Negra" was also included in the soundtrack of the film. Vargas herself, as a young woman, was alleged to have had an affair with Frida Kahlo, during Kahlo's marriage to muralist Diego Rivera. She also appeared in Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel, singing "Tu Me Acostumbraste", a bolero of Frank Dominguez. Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1952) is an American director of Broadway theatre and film. ... For other uses, see Frida (disambiguation). ... Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954) was a Mexican painter who depicted the indigenous culture of her country in a style combining Realism, Symbolism and Surrealism. ... A mural is a painting on a wall, ceiling, or other large permanent surface. ... Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957; full name Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez) was a world-famous Mexican painter, born in Guanajuato City, Guanajuato, whose large wall works in fresco co-established Mexican Mural... Alejandro González Iñárritu (IPA: ), born August 15, 1963, to Hector González Gama and Luz María Iñárritu in Mexico City, is an Academy Award-nominated Mexican film director. ... Babel is a 2006 dramatic film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga. ... Frank Domínguez (9 October 1927) is a famous song composer and a pianist from Cuba, of the filin movement. ...

Joaquín Sabina's song "Por el Boulevar de los Sueños Rotos" ("Through the Boulevard of Broken Dreams") is dedicated to Vargas. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

Quotes

“I love with the liver, heart has nothing to do with it."(“Yo amo con el hígado, el corazón no tiene nada que ver con esto”)

"Who is Chavela Vargas in Costa Rica? -Nobody. Because they’re ignorants. A country that has no army and still declares war to Iraq? Bring’em on! I have nothing there. But here in Mexico I have my friends. In Guadalajara, in Tepoztlán. I lack nothing." (“Quién es Chavela Vargas en Costa Rica? -Nadie. Porque ellos son ignorantes. Un país que no tiene ejército y aún así declara la guerra a Irak? No tengo nada allí. Pero aquí en México tengo a mis amigos. En Guadalajara, en Tepoztlán. No me hace falta nada.”)

"A woman has many lives to live. In order to do so many things and break so many limits, as I’ve done it, one has to be too much of a woman." (“Una mujer tiene muchas vidas que vivir. Para hacer muchas cosas y romper parámetros como yo he hecho, hay que ser muy mujer. Después se dirá”)

Selected Discography

• Piensa en mí, 1991
• Boleros, 1991
• Sentimiento de México (vol. 1), 1995
• De México y del mundo, 1995
• Le canta a México, 1995
• Volver, volver, 1996
• Dos, 1996
• Grandes Momentos, 1996
• Macorina, 1996
• Colección de Oro, 1999
• Con la rondalla del amor de Saltillo, 2000
• Para perder la cabeza, 2000
• Las 15 grandes de Chavela Vargas, 2000
• Grandes éxitos, 2002
• Para toda la vida, 2002
• Discografía básica, 2002
• Antología, 2004
• Somos, 2004
• En Carnegie Hall, 2004
• La Llorona, 2004
• Cupaima, 2006

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See Also

• Ranchera
• Cuco Sanchez

Pedro Infante (left) with Jorge Negrete (right) The ranchera is a genre of the traditional music of Mexico. ... José del Refugio Sánchez Saldaña (Altamira, Tamaulipas, 3 May 1921 – Mexico City, 6 October 2000) better known as Cuco Sanchez was a Mexican singer and songwriter who wrote dozens of hits, including Anillo de Compromiso, Anoche Estuve Llorando, Por qué Peca Esa Mujer, Fallaste Corazón, Cama de...

References

1.http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2007/06/08/index.php?section=espectaculos&article=a12n1esp 2.http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2000/03/21/cul6.html

External links

• "At Carnegie Hall" album review on Sound Generator
• Chavela Vargas at All Music Guide