Hello, today's artist was born in the wrong body, which seeems all the rage these days, but drinking and smoking cigars like a man (and then some) last century in Mexico, for a woman, must have caused bouts of depression, well despite this life on the edge she made it to 93, a strong woman indeed, and i strongly advice you to download the wonderful 2017 documentairy made about her life with english subtitles Chavela (mkv 793mb)
Today's artist is 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. Chavela Vargas has left, and left behind 93 years of intense life, of life in freedom. The great lady of ranchera music had a very turbulent existence: wild parties, alcoholism, sexual preferences that brought her not a few problems in her youth and some serious illnesses that failed, however, to undermine a musical career full of successes. Chavela earned the respect of the public singing above any excess. The affection was obtained simply with his way of being: speechless, funny, rebellious and passionate, until his last breath.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 Recording Arts & Sciences, presented her with a Latin Grammy Statuette in 2007 after receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of that organization. . .....N'Joy
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She was born in Costa Rica, in San Joaquín de Flores, as Isabel Vargas Lizano, daughter of Francisco Vargas and Herminia Lizano. She was baptized on 15 July 1919 with the forenames "María Isabel Anita Carmen de Jesús." She had a difficult childhood: her parents divorced and left her under the care of an uncle, and she contracted poliomyelitis. She went by Chavela, which is a pet name for Isabel. At age 17, she abandoned her native country due to lack of opportunities for a musical career, seeking refuge in Mexico, where an entertainment industry was burgeoning. There she resided for almost eight decades and obtained Mexican nationality.
For many years she sang on the streets, but in her thirties she became a professional singer, In her youth, she dressed as a man, smoked cigars, drank heavily, carried a gun, and was known for her characteristic red jorongo, which she donned in performances until old. Vargas sang the canción ranchera, which she performed in her own peculiar style. The typical ranchera, as represented by José Alfredo Jiménez, was a masculine but emotional song about love and its mishaps, usually mediated by alcohol, since in a macho culture, the display of feelings by men is allowed only to the drunk. The ranchera is sung from a man's perspective and with a mariachi accompaniment. Chavela sang this type of song as a solo, using only guitar and voice, evoking the singing style of a drunk man. She often slowed down the tempo of melodies to draw more dramatic tension out of songs, so they could be taken as naughtily humorous.
Romance with Frida Kahlo. In the 1940s, she made friends with Mexican culture characters such as José Alfredo, Pedro Infante, Agustín Lara, Jorge Negrete, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, who for a time hosted her at home. With Kahlo she shared a great friendship, and it is rumored that they also maintained a romance. The painter mentioned Vargas in a letter whose authenticity has been discussed a lot. It was addressed to the poet Carlos Pellicer and said: "Today I met Chavela Vargas, extraordinary, lesbian, it seemed more erotic to me, I do not know if she felt what I did, but I think she is a woman who is liberal enough, ask, I would not hesitate a second to undress before her ... She, I repeat, is erotic, maybe it's a gift that heaven sends me Frida K
Towards the end of the 1950s, she became known within artistic circles, due in part to her performances in Acapulco, center of international tourism, where she sang at the Champagne Room of the restaurant La Perla. Her first album, Noche de Bohemia (Bohemian Night), was released in 1961 with the professional support of José Alfredo Jiménez, one of the foremost singer/songwriters of Mexican ranchera music. She eventually recorded more than 80 albums. Vargas was hugely successful during the 1950s, the 1960s, and the first half of the 1970s, touring in Mexico, the United States, France, and Spain and was close to many prominent artists and intellectuals of the time, including Juan Rulfo, Agustín Lara, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Dolores Olmedo and José Alfredo Jiménez.
Success raised her to stages all over the world, but she also lived two decades immersed in an alcoholism that almost killed her. Between 1970 and 1990. "When I was drunk I never did anything bad, I just fell down in all the holes I found and with everything and car I fell ... I was disgraced, I got drunk 25 years, I did not lose them, I lived them in the canteen and I had a lot of fun, "she said, presuming that in all her life he had taken 45,000 liters of tequila and could still donate her liver...right
In the late 1970s Vargas partially retired from performing due to a 15-year battle with alcoholism, which she described in her autobiography (Y si quieres saber de mi pasado [And if you want to know about my past], published in 2002) as "my 15 years in hell." Chavela couldn't keep on with her heavy drinking and intense lifestyle. In 1970, "submerged in an alcoholic haze" as she described it, she was taken in by an Indian family who nursed her back to health without knowing who she was. In 2003, she told The New York Times that she had not had a drink in 25 years.
Vargas returned to the stage in 1991, performing at a bohemian nightclub called "El Hábito" in Coyoacán, Mexico City. Her career started to recover international prominence, with performances in Latin America, Europe and the United States. Vargas debuted at Carnegie Hall in 2003 at age 83 at the behest and promotion of Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, an admirer and friend.At age 81, she publicly came out as a lesbian in her autobiography titled And If You Want to Know about My Past. But it wasn't really a surprise to her fans. For years Vargas refused to change the genders in her songs. In "Paloma Negra" ("Black Dove"), Vargas accuses a woman of partying all night long and breaking her heart.
Vargas is featured in many of Almodóvar's films, including La flor de mi secreto in both song and video. She said, however, that acting was not her ambition, although she had previously participated in films such as the 1967 movie La Soldadera. Vargas also appeared in Frida, singing "La Llorona" (The Weeping Woman). Her classic "Paloma Negra" (Black Dove) 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 appeared in Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel, singing "Tú me acostumbraste" ("I got used to you"), a bolero by Frank Domínguez.
On February 10, 2017, the biographical film Chavela debuted. Directed by Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi, the film features Pedro Almodóvar, Elena Benarroch and Miguel Bosé among others. Available here
Chavela Vargas had been hospitalized for several weeks as a result of respiratory problems. She died age 93 on August 5th 2012 in Cuernavaca, Mexico. According her official Facebook page, her last words were "I leave with Mexico in my heart." .
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The best and longest preserved of the Mexican cancion ranchera singers, Chavela Vargas began singing rather late in life -- past the age of thirty -- but continued well into old age, she first sang on a professional level in the early '50s, and toured with the legendary José Alfredo Jiménez. Her first recordings appeared in 1961, and she became quite popular during the 1960s and '70s, both in her native land as well as across the ocean in Spain and Europe. Although she retired in 1979, a victim of alcoholism, Vargas returned in 1990 after accepting a role in the Werner Herzog film A Cry of Stone. One year later, she contributed a song to the soundtrack of Tacones Lejanos, and in 1993 she entered a recording studio for the first time in decades.
This 1993 compilation offers a generous assortment of her classic recordings from the 1960s and 1970s, which usually paired Vargas' matchless phrasing with the guitar of Antonio Bribiesca. Chavela ventured into the ranchera song, which had a peculiar style of interpreting. One of the slopes of the ranchera song, the one represented by José Alfredo Jiménez is usually macho and emotional, it is about loves and desamores, almost always with alcohol in between, since in a macho culture only the demonstration of sensitivity is accepted of the man when he is drunk; These songs are sung from a male perspective and with the accompaniment of Mariachi. Antonio Bribiesca's playing of the guitar is so marvelous in expresing sentiment that he has been called Antonio Bribiesca and his crying guitar
Chavela Vargas with Antonio Bribiesca - 30 Grande Exitos 1 (flac 269mb)
01 Macorina 2:46
02 Cruz de Olvido 5:10
03 Aquel Amor 2:05
04 Albur de Amor 3:17
05 Esta Tristeza Mia 3:27
06 Arrieros Somos 3:17
07 La Nave del Olvido 3:45
08 Que Si Te Quiero, Juralo 3:07
09 En el Último Trago 2:30
10 Que Te Vaya Bonito 3:22
11 Se Me Olvidó Otra Vez 3:14
12 Tata Dios 3:40
13 Tu y la Mentira 3:07
14 Vamonos 3:22
15 Hace un Año 3:05
Chavela Vargas with Antonio Bribiesca - 30 Grande Exitos 2 (flac 268mb)
16 Mi Segundo Amor 25:55
17 Amanecí en Tus Brazos 2:46
18 Con Mis Propias Manos 3:25
19 Besando la Cruz 3:45
20 La Noche de Mi Mal 3:08
21 Corazón, Corazón 2:50
22 Llegando a Ti 3:16
23 Cuando Vivas Conmigo 2:45
24 La Enorme Distancia 2:58
25 Que Te Ha Dado Esa Mujer 4:18
26 Se Me Hizo Fácil 2:47
27 Tu Recuerdo y Yo 3:00
28 Una Cerca en Mi Camino 3:25
29 Volver, Volver 3:23
30 Flor de Azalea 4:04
Chavela Vargas with Antonio Bribiesca - 30 Grande Exitos 1+ 2 (ogg 236mb)
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Chavela Vargas has been able to express the desolation of rancheras with the radical nakedness of blues, by dispensing with mariachi Chavela eliminated the festive character of the rancheras, showing in all their nakedness the pain and the defeat of their lyrics. In the case of "Piensa en mí", (that's what I say) a kind of danzón by Agustín Lara, Chavela changed the original rhythm to such an extent that from a pizpireta and danceable song it became a fado or a painful lullaby. Chavela created with the emphasis of the end of his songs a new genre that should bear her name. The songs of José Alfredo are born in the margins of society and speak of defeats and abandonments; Chavela added an ironic bitterness that overcame the hypocrisy of the world that she had lived and the one who always challenged her. She rejoiced in the endings, she turned the lament into a hymn, she spat the end to your face. No living being sang with the proper tear to the great José Alfredo Jiménez as Chavela did.
Chavela Vargas - Piensa En Mi ( flac 216mb)
01 Soledad 2:25
02 Rival 3:52
03 Que Te Vaya Bien 3:45
04 Piensa en Ml 4:02
05 Santa 4:20
06 Las Ciudades 3:36
07 Acariciame 5:07
08 Noches De Ahuatepec 2:58
09 Peregrina 3:43
10 Se Me Olvido Otra Vez 3:14
Chavela Vargas - Piensa En Mi (ogg 101mb)
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Chavela Vargas is the most magnificent baladista of Mexican music. This collection is wonderful, the music surpasses any language barrier in its depth and emotion. Chavela Vargas has a way of penetrating the soul with her cigar-scarred crooning about love, life and loss. Of course not the old Chavela, her voice has been hardened by liquor, aging, and cigars, but the drama and feeling is still there. That is what makes her such an icon. Time has given her an edginess in her "rough voice of tenderness". In addition, the ranchera songs on this album are beautifully emotional and poignant.
Chavela Vargas - La Llorona (flac 192mb)
01 Cruz de Olvido 4:35
02 Sombras 4:03
03 Rogaciano 3:27
04 La China 3:12
05 Amanecí en tus Brazos 2:38
06 Luz de Luna 3:27
07 De un Mundo Raro 3:51
08 La Llorona 8:29
09 Toda una Vida 2:32
10 A Prisión Perpetua 4:13
11 El Andariego 3:22
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This is one of those great albums that you will play regularly for a very long time. All songs are accompanied by a solo acoustic guitar played in that uniquely Mexican "crying" style (sparse, dragged / note held longer than notated, plenty of blue notes, slight vibrato) that just gives you the chills.Her singing style is almost perfect.... more nostalgic and less dramatic than in her youth, capturing the surrealism of her interpretation in Frida.... but with her voice was still in good shape (this album was recorded in 1992). The song choice is excellent. My favorites are Maria Tepozteca (a very explicit and sensous description of a sexual fantasy over an indigenous woman with poetic, poignant & very smart lyrics which she penned herself), Soledad (another equally poetic & haunting song which plays on the duality of Soledad as a name and adjective), Churrasca (classic Peruvian style waltz)... and the Jose Alfredo Jimenez songs are right on.
Chavela Vargas - Volver, Volver (flac 164mb)
01 Volver 2:54
02 Soledad 3:21
03 La Churrasca 3:07
04 Tú y La Mentira 2:52
05 Se Me Hizo Fácil 3:43
06 El Día Que Me Dijiste 2:18
07 Concha Nácar 2:49
08 María Tepozteca 3:04
09 Quisiera Amarte Menos 3:14
10 La Noche De Mi Mal 3:02
11 Hacia La Vida 3:11
12 En El Último Trago 2:45
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Singer Chavela Vargas was a pioneer on many respects. Born in 1919, she became famous in the 1950s but her career was interrupted and she was forgotten two decades later to the point that many people believed her to be dead. Her comeback around the age of 70 was one of the most remarkable in the history of music, so was her presence in the public awareness, both for her music and for attitude. The film Chavela co-directed by Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi with the participation of Pedro Almodóvar is part of a spectacular comeback of an artist whose life is still surrounded by mysteries six years after her death.
Chavela Vargas was a very non-conventional woman and artist who built her career and lived much of her life in a conservative country. She sang the music of the Mexican cowboys ('rancheras') and dressed unconventionally. It was only very late in her life and career that she could go public as a lesbian, but her sexual orientation as well as the alcohol addiction were the principal causes of her fall of the grace of the public at the peak of her career, despite her success and popularity. Audiences simply believed that she is no longer alive, but to everybody's surprise (including probably her own) she had the courage and power to make one of the most sensational comebacks in the history of music, enjoying again success, and becoming an international celebrity. She was older than 80 years when she made her debut in places like Carnegie Hall or Olympia, and her music was a source of inspiration for several films of Pedro Almodóvar. It is based mostly on her own interviews and on testimonies from her friends and colleagues. There is a lot of material about her private life, less about her music. As in many musical documentaries music presented on screen (with very appropriate English translation of the lyrics) speaks best about her art.
Through its lyrical structure, Chavela will take viewers on an evocative, thought-provoking journey through the iconoclastic life of game-changing artist Chavela Vargas. Centered around never before-seen interview footage of Chavela shot 20 years before her death in 2012, and guided by the stories in Chavela's songs, and the myths and tales others have told about her - as well as those she spread about herself - the film weaves an arresting portrait of a woman who dared to dress, speak, sing, and dream her unique life into being.
Chavela (mkv 793mb)
Unfortunately Google Chrome likes to exclude websites "with this site can’t provide a secure connection", fortunately Mozilla isn't run by a multinational that likes to pretend not to be evil...
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Today's artist is 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. Chavela Vargas has left, and left behind 93 years of intense life, of life in freedom. The great lady of ranchera music had a very turbulent existence: wild parties, alcoholism, sexual preferences that brought her not a few problems in her youth and some serious illnesses that failed, however, to undermine a musical career full of successes. Chavela earned the respect of the public singing above any excess. The affection was obtained simply with his way of being: speechless, funny, rebellious and passionate, until his last breath.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 Recording Arts & Sciences, presented her with a Latin Grammy Statuette in 2007 after receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of that organization. . .....N'Joy
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She was born in Costa Rica, in San Joaquín de Flores, as Isabel Vargas Lizano, daughter of Francisco Vargas and Herminia Lizano. She was baptized on 15 July 1919 with the forenames "María Isabel Anita Carmen de Jesús." She had a difficult childhood: her parents divorced and left her under the care of an uncle, and she contracted poliomyelitis. She went by Chavela, which is a pet name for Isabel. At age 17, she abandoned her native country due to lack of opportunities for a musical career, seeking refuge in Mexico, where an entertainment industry was burgeoning. There she resided for almost eight decades and obtained Mexican nationality.
Romance with Frida Kahlo. In the 1940s, she made friends with Mexican culture characters such as José Alfredo, Pedro Infante, Agustín Lara, Jorge Negrete, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, who for a time hosted her at home. With Kahlo she shared a great friendship, and it is rumored that they also maintained a romance. The painter mentioned Vargas in a letter whose authenticity has been discussed a lot. It was addressed to the poet Carlos Pellicer and said: "Today I met Chavela Vargas, extraordinary, lesbian, it seemed more erotic to me, I do not know if she felt what I did, but I think she is a woman who is liberal enough, ask, I would not hesitate a second to undress before her ... She, I repeat, is erotic, maybe it's a gift that heaven sends me Frida K
Towards the end of the 1950s, she became known within artistic circles, due in part to her performances in Acapulco, center of international tourism, where she sang at the Champagne Room of the restaurant La Perla. Her first album, Noche de Bohemia (Bohemian Night), was released in 1961 with the professional support of José Alfredo Jiménez, one of the foremost singer/songwriters of Mexican ranchera music. She eventually recorded more than 80 albums. Vargas was hugely successful during the 1950s, the 1960s, and the first half of the 1970s, touring in Mexico, the United States, France, and Spain and was close to many prominent artists and intellectuals of the time, including Juan Rulfo, Agustín Lara, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Dolores Olmedo and José Alfredo Jiménez.
Success raised her to stages all over the world, but she also lived two decades immersed in an alcoholism that almost killed her. Between 1970 and 1990. "When I was drunk I never did anything bad, I just fell down in all the holes I found and with everything and car I fell ... I was disgraced, I got drunk 25 years, I did not lose them, I lived them in the canteen and I had a lot of fun, "she said, presuming that in all her life he had taken 45,000 liters of tequila and could still donate her liver...right
In the late 1970s Vargas partially retired from performing due to a 15-year battle with alcoholism, which she described in her autobiography (Y si quieres saber de mi pasado [And if you want to know about my past], published in 2002) as "my 15 years in hell." Chavela couldn't keep on with her heavy drinking and intense lifestyle. In 1970, "submerged in an alcoholic haze" as she described it, she was taken in by an Indian family who nursed her back to health without knowing who she was. In 2003, she told The New York Times that she had not had a drink in 25 years.
Vargas is featured in many of Almodóvar's films, including La flor de mi secreto in both song and video. She said, however, that acting was not her ambition, although she had previously participated in films such as the 1967 movie La Soldadera. Vargas also appeared in Frida, singing "La Llorona" (The Weeping Woman). Her classic "Paloma Negra" (Black Dove) 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 appeared in Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel, singing "Tú me acostumbraste" ("I got used to you"), a bolero by Frank Domínguez.
On February 10, 2017, the biographical film Chavela debuted. Directed by Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi, the film features Pedro Almodóvar, Elena Benarroch and Miguel Bosé among others. Available here
Chavela Vargas had been hospitalized for several weeks as a result of respiratory problems. She died age 93 on August 5th 2012 in Cuernavaca, Mexico. According her official Facebook page, her last words were "I leave with Mexico in my heart." .
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The best and longest preserved of the Mexican cancion ranchera singers, Chavela Vargas began singing rather late in life -- past the age of thirty -- but continued well into old age, she first sang on a professional level in the early '50s, and toured with the legendary José Alfredo Jiménez. Her first recordings appeared in 1961, and she became quite popular during the 1960s and '70s, both in her native land as well as across the ocean in Spain and Europe. Although she retired in 1979, a victim of alcoholism, Vargas returned in 1990 after accepting a role in the Werner Herzog film A Cry of Stone. One year later, she contributed a song to the soundtrack of Tacones Lejanos, and in 1993 she entered a recording studio for the first time in decades.
This 1993 compilation offers a generous assortment of her classic recordings from the 1960s and 1970s, which usually paired Vargas' matchless phrasing with the guitar of Antonio Bribiesca. Chavela ventured into the ranchera song, which had a peculiar style of interpreting. One of the slopes of the ranchera song, the one represented by José Alfredo Jiménez is usually macho and emotional, it is about loves and desamores, almost always with alcohol in between, since in a macho culture only the demonstration of sensitivity is accepted of the man when he is drunk; These songs are sung from a male perspective and with the accompaniment of Mariachi. Antonio Bribiesca's playing of the guitar is so marvelous in expresing sentiment that he has been called Antonio Bribiesca and his crying guitar
Chavela Vargas with Antonio Bribiesca - 30 Grande Exitos 1 (flac 269mb)
01 Macorina 2:46
02 Cruz de Olvido 5:10
03 Aquel Amor 2:05
04 Albur de Amor 3:17
05 Esta Tristeza Mia 3:27
06 Arrieros Somos 3:17
07 La Nave del Olvido 3:45
08 Que Si Te Quiero, Juralo 3:07
09 En el Último Trago 2:30
10 Que Te Vaya Bonito 3:22
11 Se Me Olvidó Otra Vez 3:14
12 Tata Dios 3:40
13 Tu y la Mentira 3:07
14 Vamonos 3:22
15 Hace un Año 3:05
Chavela Vargas with Antonio Bribiesca - 30 Grande Exitos 2 (flac 268mb)
16 Mi Segundo Amor 25:55
17 Amanecí en Tus Brazos 2:46
18 Con Mis Propias Manos 3:25
19 Besando la Cruz 3:45
20 La Noche de Mi Mal 3:08
21 Corazón, Corazón 2:50
22 Llegando a Ti 3:16
23 Cuando Vivas Conmigo 2:45
24 La Enorme Distancia 2:58
25 Que Te Ha Dado Esa Mujer 4:18
26 Se Me Hizo Fácil 2:47
27 Tu Recuerdo y Yo 3:00
28 Una Cerca en Mi Camino 3:25
29 Volver, Volver 3:23
30 Flor de Azalea 4:04
Chavela Vargas with Antonio Bribiesca - 30 Grande Exitos 1+ 2 (ogg 236mb)
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Chavela Vargas has been able to express the desolation of rancheras with the radical nakedness of blues, by dispensing with mariachi Chavela eliminated the festive character of the rancheras, showing in all their nakedness the pain and the defeat of their lyrics. In the case of "Piensa en mí", (that's what I say) a kind of danzón by Agustín Lara, Chavela changed the original rhythm to such an extent that from a pizpireta and danceable song it became a fado or a painful lullaby. Chavela created with the emphasis of the end of his songs a new genre that should bear her name. The songs of José Alfredo are born in the margins of society and speak of defeats and abandonments; Chavela added an ironic bitterness that overcame the hypocrisy of the world that she had lived and the one who always challenged her. She rejoiced in the endings, she turned the lament into a hymn, she spat the end to your face. No living being sang with the proper tear to the great José Alfredo Jiménez as Chavela did.
Chavela Vargas - Piensa En Mi ( flac 216mb)
01 Soledad 2:25
02 Rival 3:52
03 Que Te Vaya Bien 3:45
04 Piensa en Ml 4:02
05 Santa 4:20
06 Las Ciudades 3:36
07 Acariciame 5:07
08 Noches De Ahuatepec 2:58
09 Peregrina 3:43
10 Se Me Olvido Otra Vez 3:14
Chavela Vargas - Piensa En Mi (ogg 101mb)
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Chavela Vargas is the most magnificent baladista of Mexican music. This collection is wonderful, the music surpasses any language barrier in its depth and emotion. Chavela Vargas has a way of penetrating the soul with her cigar-scarred crooning about love, life and loss. Of course not the old Chavela, her voice has been hardened by liquor, aging, and cigars, but the drama and feeling is still there. That is what makes her such an icon. Time has given her an edginess in her "rough voice of tenderness". In addition, the ranchera songs on this album are beautifully emotional and poignant.
Chavela Vargas - La Llorona (flac 192mb)
01 Cruz de Olvido 4:35
02 Sombras 4:03
03 Rogaciano 3:27
04 La China 3:12
05 Amanecí en tus Brazos 2:38
06 Luz de Luna 3:27
07 De un Mundo Raro 3:51
08 La Llorona 8:29
09 Toda una Vida 2:32
10 A Prisión Perpetua 4:13
11 El Andariego 3:22
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This is one of those great albums that you will play regularly for a very long time. All songs are accompanied by a solo acoustic guitar played in that uniquely Mexican "crying" style (sparse, dragged / note held longer than notated, plenty of blue notes, slight vibrato) that just gives you the chills.Her singing style is almost perfect.... more nostalgic and less dramatic than in her youth, capturing the surrealism of her interpretation in Frida.... but with her voice was still in good shape (this album was recorded in 1992). The song choice is excellent. My favorites are Maria Tepozteca (a very explicit and sensous description of a sexual fantasy over an indigenous woman with poetic, poignant & very smart lyrics which she penned herself), Soledad (another equally poetic & haunting song which plays on the duality of Soledad as a name and adjective), Churrasca (classic Peruvian style waltz)... and the Jose Alfredo Jimenez songs are right on.
Chavela Vargas - Volver, Volver (flac 164mb)
01 Volver 2:54
02 Soledad 3:21
03 La Churrasca 3:07
04 Tú y La Mentira 2:52
05 Se Me Hizo Fácil 3:43
06 El Día Que Me Dijiste 2:18
07 Concha Nácar 2:49
08 María Tepozteca 3:04
09 Quisiera Amarte Menos 3:14
10 La Noche De Mi Mal 3:02
11 Hacia La Vida 3:11
12 En El Último Trago 2:45
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Chavela Vargas was a very non-conventional woman and artist who built her career and lived much of her life in a conservative country. She sang the music of the Mexican cowboys ('rancheras') and dressed unconventionally. It was only very late in her life and career that she could go public as a lesbian, but her sexual orientation as well as the alcohol addiction were the principal causes of her fall of the grace of the public at the peak of her career, despite her success and popularity. Audiences simply believed that she is no longer alive, but to everybody's surprise (including probably her own) she had the courage and power to make one of the most sensational comebacks in the history of music, enjoying again success, and becoming an international celebrity. She was older than 80 years when she made her debut in places like Carnegie Hall or Olympia, and her music was a source of inspiration for several films of Pedro Almodóvar. It is based mostly on her own interviews and on testimonies from her friends and colleagues. There is a lot of material about her private life, less about her music. As in many musical documentaries music presented on screen (with very appropriate English translation of the lyrics) speaks best about her art.
Through its lyrical structure, Chavela will take viewers on an evocative, thought-provoking journey through the iconoclastic life of game-changing artist Chavela Vargas. Centered around never before-seen interview footage of Chavela shot 20 years before her death in 2012, and guided by the stories in Chavela's songs, and the myths and tales others have told about her - as well as those she spread about herself - the film weaves an arresting portrait of a woman who dared to dress, speak, sing, and dream her unique life into being.
Chavela (mkv 793mb)
Unfortunately Google Chrome likes to exclude websites "with this site can’t provide a secure connection", fortunately Mozilla isn't run by a multinational that likes to pretend not to be evil...
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