![]() ![]() Recounting her childhood, Vargas speaks of times when her boyishness was such an embarrassment to her mother that she would hide her from guests. “I was always a dreamer,” she said to filmmaker Catherine Gund in 1991, “waking up in the dead of night and running away following the music of the serenades.”, draws out Vargas’s life-one that, despite immense pain, longing, and suffering. She grew up too boyish for the liking of her religious parents. Vargas, who would have celebrated her 99th birthday today, was born Isabel Vargas Lizano on Apin Costa Rica. You see the clouds rushing toward you, but before you can run for cover the emotions shower over your head and leave you drenched in your own tears. The pain in her songs plays out through the twitch of an eyebrow, a wince that momentarily contorts her face, and a half-raise of her arm. Watching Chavela Vargas sing is like watching rain clouds gather against a hill she appears onstage, takes to the mic, and sings in her husky tenor. ![]()
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