Chavela Vargas con el cuarteto Lara Foster
Album: Chavela Vargas con el cuarteto Lara Foster
Artist: Chavela Vargas
Label: RCA Victor
Genre: Ranchera
Time: 00:40:46
Total size: 93,7 MB
Tracks:
01. No volvere
02. Desdeñosa
03. La Llorona
04. Las niñas Isabel
05. Rayando el Sol
06. El dia que me dijiste
07. Manzanita
08. Un Mundo Raro
09. Paloma Negra
10. Golondrina Viajera
11. La Charrasca
12. Adios Paloma
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In the late 1950s and early 1960s in Mexico, singer Chavela Vargas dressed in men’s clothes, drank and smoked cigars like any man, carried a gun with her, and was notorious for her love of women. Some even say that she once kidnapped a woman at gunpoint, but Vargas denies that rumor. However, she doesn’t deny that she gained her slight limp from jumping out of a window because a woman disappointed her in love. If that’s true, Vargas in her youth was every bit as romantic as the music she sang.
A legend in Mexican ranchera music—traditional folk music filled with lusty songs about women and romance and heartbreak—Vargas publicly came out as a lesbian in 2000 at the age of 81, the same year she was awarded Spain’s Great Cross of Isabel la Católica, the country’s highest honor for artistic production.
Speaking to Madrid’s El País newspaper in October 2000, Vargas declared, “I’ve had to fight to be myself and to be respected. I'm proud to carry this stigma and call myself a lesbian. I don't boast about it or broadcast it, but I don't deny it. I've had to confront society and the Church, which says that homosexuals are damned. That's absurd. How can someone who's born like this be judged? I didn't attend lesbian classes. No one taught me to be this way. I was born this way, from the moment I opened my eyes in this world. I've never been to bed with a man. Never. That's how pure I am; I have nothing to be ashamed of. My gods made me the way I am.”
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