Chavela Vargas was a hard-living, feisty singer from Costa Rica who won fame for defying gender stereotypes in the male-dominated world of Ranchero music. She died on Sunday at age 93. Host Michel ...

Tuesday is a second day of mourning in Mexico. Chavela Vargas, one of the greatest singers of Mexican traditional music, died Sunday at age 93. While Monday tens of thousands of Mexicans of all ages ...

It was more a statement of political solidarity than an earth-shattering revelation when, at age 81, ranchera singer Chavela Vargas officially came out as a lesbian. For decades she’d been a legendary ...

Chavela Vargas is featured in the new documentary Hecho en Mexico, out Nov. 30. Nov. 30, 2012— -- When Chavela Vargas passed away in early August in Cuernavaca at the age of 93, Mexico and Latin ...

Legendary Mexican singer Chavela Vargas receives justifiably laudatory treatment in this documentary celebrating her refusal to compromise together with her musical brilliance. In 1992, Catherine Gund ...

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A legend of Latin American song has died. Chavela Vargas was a cultural icon across the Spanish-speaking world, with a voice that redefined notions of beauty and an attitude that brashly bent gender ...

Nadie cantará a José Alfredo Jiménez como Chavela Vargas. Eran amigos, confidentes, compañeros de parranda y entre ellos se hablaban “de borracho a borracho”, por eso se entendían. Se conocieron en la ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Chavela Vargas, who defied gender stereotypes to become one of the most legendary singers in Mexico, died Sunday at age 93. Her friend and biographer Maria Cortina said Vargas died ...

Her career began in the late 1940s, when she performed highly-emotional “ranchera” torch songs, accompanying herself on guitar, in small Acapulco bars of questionable repute. A friend of Diego Rivera, ...