Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Chavela Vargas

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Isabel Vargas Lizano, better known as Chavela Vargas, was a Costa Rican/Mexican singer. She was especially known for her rendition of Mexican rancheras, but she is also recognized for her contribution to other genres of popular Latin American music. She was an influential interpreter in the Americas and Europe, muse to figures such as Pedro Almodóvar, hailed for her haunting performances, and called "la voz áspera de la ternura", 'the rough voice of tenderness'. The Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, presented her with a Latin Grammy in 2007.

Costa Rican - Musician | Born: April 17, 1919

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When you like something, you should do it all night long.

Chavela Vargas

I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.

Chavela Vargas

What hurts is not being homosexual, but they tell it in your face as if you were a plague.

Chavela Vargas

I was never afraid of anything because I never hurt anyone. I was always an old drunk.

Chavela Vargas

I've never even been to bed with a man. Never. That's how pure I am; I have nothing to be ashamed of. My gods made me the way I am.

Chavela Vargas

I had to fight to be me and get respect, and to carry that stigma, for me, is pride. Carrying the tag of lesbian. I'm not bragging, I'm not preaching, but I don't deny it . I had to face society, the Church, which says damn gay people ... it's absurd. How do you judge someone who has been born that way. I did not study to be a lesbian. Neither was it taught to me. I was born this way. Since I opened my eyes to the world. I've never slept with a man. Never. I'm pure, I don't have to be ashamed ... My Gods made me so.

Chavela Vargas

Frida Kahlo taught me a lot without ever bragging about anything.

Chavela Vargas

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Chavela Vargas

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