#ranchera music

[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 !

[bitter69uk]

Adiós to tempestuous Mexican diva and kitsch icon Irma Serrano (née Irma Consuelo Cielo Serrano Castro, 9 December 1933 - 1 March 2023). Nicknamed La Tigresa, the showgirl turned ranchera singer, actress (she made her film debut in 1961 with Santo contra los Zombies (aka Santo versus the Zombies) starring Mexican wrestler Santo), mistress of (married) Mexican president Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, businesswoman, extreme plastic surgery enthusiast, TV personality and left-wing politician has died aged 89. A fixture of Mexican tabloids, Serrano continued freaking out the squares into old age (she married a 29-year-old man aged 71 – get it, girl!). Do yourself a favour and do a Google Image search on Irma Serrano!

[haveyouheardthisband]

[primordialfather]

La Gata Bajo La Lluvia - Rocio Durcal

[cameron-carpet-lola]

OMG it's Vicente Fernández (version completa)

[fidjiefidjie]

Bon Soir 🆕️ 🎸🎺🪗 💙

Marc Anthony, Pepe Aguilar 🎶 Ojalá Te Duela

[rainbow-posteador]

José Esparza en Mi otra mitad, los invito a escuchar su musica 🎶🤠🤎 me gusta mucho su trabajo musical, puesto que esta detrás de la composición de sus canciones de amor y desamor.

[thecreativemillennial]

The Late selena quintanolla Perez during a 1994 Coca-Cola photo shoot, a year before she was murdered

[queens-of-tejano]

JENNY B

[womensmusiccanon]

Spotlight: Con el cuarteto Lara Foster / Chavela Vargas (1961) by Chavela Vargas

I really don't have the words to go into this with the reverence Chavela deserves, so instead I'll just say that I find her incredible and that this is so so gorgeous, because that's the truth of it. This is an enchanting record, sure to bring forth chills, and that's all on Chavela's incredible perfomance. Pointing to a few tracks in particular is a daunting task when they're all so good, but of course her rendition of La Llorona is unavoidable and just beautiful, as are La Niña Isabel, Manzanita and perhaps especially Paloma Negra, though I cannot reiterate enough how good this is from beginning to end. The music really, really speaks for itself.

Live perfomance attached as usual <3:

[bitter69uk]

Born on this day ninety years ago: glamorous and tempestuous Mexican diva and kitsch icon Irma Serrano (née Irma Consuelo Cielo Serrano Castro, 9 December 1933 - 1 March 2023). Nicknamed La Tigresa, the showgirl turned impassioned ranchera singer, actress (she starred opposite Mexican wrestler Santo in Santo contra los Zombies (aka Santo versus the Zombies) in 1961), mistress of (married) Mexican president Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, businesswoman, extreme plastic surgery enthusiast, TV personality and left-wing politician was a scandalous fixture in Mexican tabloids for over five decades. In fact, Serrano continued freaking out the squares into old age (she married a 29-year-old man aged 71 – get it, girl!). See Serrano in full cry here.

[autisticplants]

A pondhawk (Erythemis simplicicollis) chows down on another still living pondhawk.

[notimefornames]

"Por Eso Te Amo (feat. Maldito Villa)" on YouTube now and all your music streaming platforms.

[zansblue-mj]

Eeeeeeeeeee! Como te quiero 💖 love your list 🤟🏻

Thank you for tagging me....

...Well, this is embarrassing...

Funny. None of the Spanish ones didn't appeared 😒. Anywho, your turn:

@fairydragon , @hasello , @onejellyfishplease , @gooeseyleo , @allyheart707 , @rufwooff , @tmnt-is-my-jam , @koolaidashley2 , @angelpuns , @mrabubu , @remedyturtles

And anyone who wants to participate are very welcome to join 😊

Challenging you all!

Put your music library on shuffle, then list the first five songs that come up in a poll to let people vote for which one they like the most!

Then tag Tumblr friends to keep the game going!

[stefandstuff]

para qué me cuidaste tanto, si hoy me lanzas a la muerta?

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[queens-of-tejano]

❤️‍🔥 Daniella Ramírez ❤️‍🔥