#Mexican music

[mirkobloom77]

🇵🇸💚 A mariachi band joins the Columbia encampment!

🔹 Original caption: A mariachi band joined the encampment and sung Cielito Lindo to students at Columbia. “Oh, oh, oh, oh, sing and do not cry, because singing cheers up, pretty little darling, our hearts.”

🔸 Sources: Wear The Peace and Gerald Dalbon (footage)

[hard--headed--woman]

"I had to fight to be myself and to be respected. I'm proud to say I'm a lesbian. I don't talk about it too much, but I don't deny it. I've had to confront society and the Church, which says that homosexuals are condemned. It's absurd! How can they judge someone who was born that way? I didn't learn to be a lesbian, nobody taught me to be the way I am. I was born this way. I've never slept with a man. I've never slept with a man. Yes, I'm a virgin and I'm not ashamed. My Gods made me this way"

- Chavela Vargas

Chavela Vargas (María Isabel Anita Carmen de Jesús Vargas Lizano) was a Mexican singer of Costa Rican origin, born in 1919 in Costa Rica and died in 2012 in Mexico.

She is considered a leading figure in ranchera music, which she sang with strength and emotion. Her voice, rough and warm at the same time, served her theatrical, passionate and human interpretations of standards from the traditional Mexican repertoire.

"And since I have to say it almost everywhere, I'll say it: my parents didn't want me. I suffered for it".

She has an extremely difficult and conflicted relationship with her family, who do not accept her in any way. As a teenager, she left her country and her family for Mexico. The young woman rejected and criticised the ultra-conservative society in which she lives. Once in Mexico, she began singing in the streets.

In the 1940s, she became friends with the painters Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, staying with them for a while and becoming Frida Kahlo's lover.

At the age of 30, she was noticed on Mexico City's Avenida Insurgentes by the composer and famous rancheras singer José Alfredo Jiménez, who became the author of her main hits. With his help, she performed in the cabarets of Mexico City in the mid-1950s before embarking on the road to success in Acapulco, an international tourist destination, where she sang at one of Elizabeth Taylor's weddings.

Chavela Vargas rose to fame in the 1960s and 1970s, touring the world. She became a well-known figure in ranchera song, to which she gave a new lease of life.

Dressed like a man, smoking and drinking like a man, carrying a pistol, "the lady with the red poncho, silver hair and brown flesh" as the Spanish singer Joaquín Sabina described her, is characterised by her red sarape.

In a television interview in 2000, she came out as a homosexual woman. This is where the text at the beginning of the post is from!

Chavela's career reached its peak from the recording of her first album (Noche de Bohemia) in 1961 until the end of the 1970s. This was followed by a long period of fifteen years, during which the singer, suffering from a heavy addiction to alcohol, interrupted her musical career, which she did not resume until 1991.

Encouraged by her friend, the director Pedro Almodóvar, who compared her to Édith Piaf, Chavela embarked on a world tour, performing at the Olympia in Paris and Carnegie Hall in New York. Among her most outstanding performances was Tú me acostumbraste by Frank Domínguez in Pedro Almodóvar's film Babel. Being a close friend of Pedro, she has appeared in several of his films, including The Flower of My Secret.

Following a final concert in Madrid on 10 July 2012 to present her album (La Luna Grande), she was hospitalised in the Spanish capital with serious respiratory problems. She died on 5 August 2012, aged 93.

I am sure you know at least one of her song, La Llorona !

In any case, Chavela was an immense artist who had a profound impact on music, and I'm delighted to have discovered her, or rather re-discovered her. I listened to some of her songs and they're amazing if you like that kind of music ! And please look her up yourself, she was such an interesting person, I couldn't talk about everything in this post or it would have been too long !

[nofatclips]

I'm Getting Sick Of You by Le Butcherettes, live at the NYC Dominion for MTV Iggy

[01298283]

Me.

Listening to my favorite sounds from the 80s and 90s.

[mannyblacque]

Source: Aranivah | Links

[our-flannel-life]

This is my recommendation.

To all who are missing someone, to those who have battled alone, to those who lost at love. Especially to those that have persevered, you are heros.

El Reloj Cucú, by Maná

The Cuckoo Clock, by Maná

My Thoughts:

I absolutely love, love Maná. I first heard them in a local Mexican restaurant, Shazamed the song, downloaded it, and I was hooked. The more I listen and watch them, the more talented I find them to be. That song that introduced me to Maná was Te Lloré Un Río. This song is written and sung by Fher Olvera of Maná, and his papá passed away when Fher was seven years old. It's hard not having parents around.

The lyrics:

El relojito cucú sonaba

The cuckoo clock sounded

Papá besó mi frente

Dad kissed my forehead

Me dijo "buenas noches, hijito"

He said "good night, my son."

Y me apagó la luz

And he turned off my light

Oye, cucú, papá se fue

Hey, cuckoo, poppa is gone

Prende la luz, que tengo miedo

Turn on the light because I'm scared

Oye, cucú, papá se fue

Hey, cuckoo, poppa is gone

Prende la luz y apaga el tiempo

Turn on the light and turn off time

Esta canción de amor

This song of love

Va para mi papá

Goes out to my dad

Se escapó al viento

Who escaped into the wind

Nos dejó solitos

He left us alone

Esta canción de amor

This song of love

Va para mi mamá

Goes out to my mom

Que aguantó todito

Who endured it all

Le dolió hasta el hueso

Hurt her to her very bones

Es por eso que mamá

That's why mom

Lloraba en silencio

I cried in silence

Lloraba en las noches

She cried at night

Y cómo aguantó por las mañanas

And how she braved the mornings

Oye, cucú, papá se fue

Hey, cuckoo, poppa is gone

Prende la luz que tengo miedo

Turn on the light because I'm scared

Oye, cucú, papá se fue

Hey, cuckoo, poppa is gone

Prende la luz y apaga el tiempo

Turn on the light and turn off time

Esta canción de amor

This song of love

Va pa' mis hermanos

Goes out to my brothers

Que crecimos juntos

We grew up together

Lo extrañamos años

We missed him for years

Este grito de amor

This scream of love

Se lo doy al cielo

I give to heaven

Le pregunto tanto, tanto, tanto

I ask so much, so much, so much

No contesta nada

It answers nothing.

Oye, cucú, papá se fue

Hey, cuckoo, poppa is gone

Prende la luz que tengo miedo

Turn on the light because I'm scared

Oye, cucú, papá se fue

Hey, cuckoo, poppa is gone

Prende la luz y apaga el tiempo

Turn on the light and turn off time

Oye, cucú, papá se fue

Hey, cuckoo, poppa is gone

Prende la luz, cómo lo extraño

Turn on the light; how I miss him

Oye, cucú, papá se fue

Hey, cuckoo, poppa is gone

Prende la luz

Turn on the light.

[dumplingprincessextraordinaire]

Don’t say you know classic Mexican music if you don’t know this band

[dizzy-miss-lizzieeeeee]

no tengo un hombre ni a gael garcía

me siento tan vacía

[discover-underground-bands]

Conciencia Total

spotify / youtube / bandcamp

[kingdarkblue]

"Dicen que soy La Mala, reputa...ción" Belinda, 2024.

[long-sleeved-sandwich]

mon laferte’s songs should definitely be in Wednesday season 2. especially tormento.

[lizplaylist]

Calaveras y diablitos

Playlist with themes of death (and some that I just like the vibe, not as dark or gloomy as you would think), that are (monstly) in spanish from Latinoamérica. Hope you enjoy it!

[je-suis-tatiana]

Un corazón como el tuyo está en extinción

La favorita de dios... she knows 🎶

[mannyblacque]

Born in Costa Rica and moved to Mexico at the age of 17, Chavela Vargas (1919 - 2012) was a cultural icon across the Spanish-speaking world.

Vargas’ impact on Mexican music is hard to overstate. She is known as much for her haunting, hoarse voice as she is for defying the gender conventions of 1950's Mexican society.

Her sexuality was a bit of an open secret, but she did not officially come out of the closet until 2002.

She was 83 years old.

Sources: (1) (2) (3)