Chavela Vargas, The Woman Who Transformed Ranchera | Episode 111
Portrait of Chavela Vargas and her guitar.
Chavela Vargas was a queer Mexican singer who is best known for transforming popular Culture Ranchera music with her smokey, sultry voice, resistance to changing to pronouns of the subjects of the music (to make her music straight), and lack of requisite Ranchera instruments, preferring to go acoustics. She is known to have wooed Frida Kahlo and other female celebrities and marched entirely to the beat of her own drum.
INTRO - 23:38 : Hannah regales the lyrical tale of our person of the week, Chavela Vargas.
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