Chavela Vargas
Chavela Vargas
Isabel Vargas Lizano, better known as Chavela Vargas, was a Costa Rican-born Mexican singer. She was especially known for her rendition of Mexican rancheras, but she is also recognized for her contribution to other genres of popular Latin American music. She has been an influential interpreter in the Americas and Europe, muse to figures such as Pedro Almodóvar, hailed for her haunting performances, and called "la voz áspera de la ternura", the rough voice of tenderness. The Latin Academy of...
NationalityCosta Rican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth17 April 1919
I was never afraid of anything because I never hurt anyone. I was always an old drunk.
I've never even 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.
I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.
Frida Kahlo taught me a lot without ever bragging about anything.
When you like something, you should do it all night long.
What hurts is not being homosexual, but they tell it in your face as if you were a plague.