Androgynous long before it was stylish, Chavela Vargas burst onto the Mexican music scene in 1942 in a long braid, trousers and a poncho, tequila bottle in hand and singing like a man. The captivating ...
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, ...
AMT has announced a preview of their upcoming show Becoming Chavela, a musical play about iconic Mexican singer Chavela Vargas which will run in Guadalajara, Mexico in June before returning to AMT ...