When the singer Chavela Vargas began performing in Mexico, in the 1950s, she dressed as a woman. But "it didn't work." She thought she "looked like a transvestite," she would say decades later, in an ...

Mexican singer Chavela Vargas became a queer icon, had purported dalliances with Frida Kahlo and Ava Gardner, challenged gender stereotypes in her country and forged an impressive career in bohemian ...

I came across chavela purely by accident. While working in Palm Springs on a story about the desert's craft beer scene, I noticed chavela on the board at Desert Beer Company. I assumed it to be a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Music Box Films has bought U.S. rights to the documentary “Chavela” and plans an October theatrical release, Variety has learned exclusively. “Chavela,” directed by Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi, ...

“Ponme la mano aquí, Macorina, ponme la mano aquí,” Chavela Vargas sings seductively in “Macorina.” “Place your hand here, Macorina, place your hand here.” The words are as ambiguous as they are ...

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 ...

When American filmmaker Catherine Gund met Mexican ranchera singer Chavela Vargas in 1991, both women were at major crossroads in their lives. Gund, then a young queer activist, had just lost her best ...

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 ...