A trailblazing free spirit whose appetite for tequila and women was as legendary as her soul-stirring vocals, Mexican singer Chavela Vargas is given an adoring salute in the documentary portrait, ...

Con una interpretación de Soledad comienza CHAVELA, un cautivador documental sobre la vida de Chavela Vargas, la cantante de música ranchera que rompió barreras, paradigmas y cuya fama internacional ...

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 ...

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 ...

An unplanned, spontaneous 1991 interview of Chavela Vargas shot 20 years before her death in 2012 sets the scene for the documentary Chavela, which covers her rise to fame, her downfall and rebirth as ...

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 ...

The raw passion and profound suffering that came through in the songs she sang could easily cleanse the soul. Those who attended the performances of Mexican music legend Chavela Vargas often described ...

Será que a Chavela se arrastou realmente para os quartos das mulheres, como Ava Gardner, durante a noite, para as roubar dos seus maridos? Será que ela se armou com uma pistola, que disparou às vezes, ...