{"id":5469,"date":"2012-08-09T14:07:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T18:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=5469"},"modified":"2012-08-09T14:26:56","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T18:26:56","slug":"our-last-goodbye-to-chavela-vargas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/our-last-goodbye-to-chavela-vargas\/","title":{"rendered":"Our last goodbye to Chavela Vargas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Nuestro panorama cultural est\u00e1 perdiendo figuras muy importantes estos d\u00edas. Posiblemente todos vosotros sep\u00e1is que la cantante Chavela Vargas, de 95 a\u00f1os, muri\u00f3 hace tres d\u00edas. Mujer de gran personalidad y una voz muy particular, fue musa de escritores, cantantes y directores de cine tales como Jose Alfredo Jimenez, Joaquin Sabina, o Pedro Almodovar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Aunque considerada mejicana, naci\u00f3 en Costa Rica, pa\u00eds que abandon\u00f3 para buscar una carrera musical en M\u00e9jico. All\u00ed tuvo diferentes trabajos, y cant\u00f3 en las calles hasta que se hizo famosa con la adaptaci\u00f3n de una canci\u00f3n rebelde del siglo XVII \u201cMacorina\u201d. Tras esto vinieron \u00e9xitos tales como \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/la-llorona-a-mexican-legend\/\">La Lloron<\/a>a\u201d, \u201cSomos\u201d, \u201dLuz de luna\u201d o \u201cCanci\u00f3n de las simples cosas\u201d. Tambi\u00e9n fue bien conocida por usar pantalones y fumar \u201ccomo los\u00a0 hombres\u201d, tener una amistad estrecha con Agust\u00edn Lara, vivir con los pintores Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo, beber un mont\u00f3n de tequila e incluso tener un arma. Pero las cosas m\u00e1s caracter\u00edsticas de ella fueron su poncho rojo y, como Almodovar la defini\u00f3, su \u201cvoz \u00e1spera de la ternura\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">En su \u00faltimo adi\u00f3s, el cantante espa\u00f1ol Joaqu\u00edn Sabina recordaba la primera noche que la conoci\u00f3, despu\u00e9s de que ella se hubiese recuperado de su adicci\u00f3n al alcohol. Ella dijo \u201cVivo en el bulevar de los sue\u00f1os rotos\u201d, y \u00e9l escribi\u00f3 con ese saludo, y por supuesto dedicada a ella, una de sus m\u00e1s bellas canciones. Esta.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XwyUxfoY10Y\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XwyUxfoY10Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Our cultural scene is losing very important figures these days. Probably, you all know that the singer Chavela Vargas, aged 95, died three days ago. A woman with strong personality and particular voice, she was the muse of songwriters, singers and cinema directors such as Jose Alfredo Jimenez, Joaquin Sabina, or Pedro Almodovar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Although considered Mexican, she was born in Costa Rica, country she left to have a musical career in Mexico. There she had different jobs, and she sang in the streets till she became famous with the adaptation of the XVII century rebel song \u201cMacorina\u201d. After that came such hits as \u201cThe weeping woman\u201d (\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/la-llorona-a-mexican-legend\/\">La Llorona<\/a>\u201d), \u201cWe are\u201d (\u201cSomos\u201d), \u201cMoon light\u201d (\u201dLuz de luna\u201d) or \u201cThe song of simple things\u201d (\u201cCanci\u00f3n de las simples cosas\u201d). She was also well known for wearing trousers and smoking \u201cas a man\u201d, having a close friendship with Agustin Lara, living with the painters Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo, drinking a lot of tequila and even having a gun. But the most characteristic things about her were her red poncho and, as Almodovar said, her &#8220;rough voice of tenderness&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In his last goodbye, the Spanish singer Joaquin Sabina remembered the first night he met her, after she had recovered from her alcohol addiction. She said \u201cI live in the broken dreams boulevard\u201d, and he wrote with this greeting, and obviously dedicated to her, one of his most wonderful songs. The one above (you can find the lyrics in the video).<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RIP Chavela Vargas- En El Ultimo Trago\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mYqRtsqQAoM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuestro panorama cultural est\u00e1 perdiendo figuras muy importantes estos d\u00edas. Posiblemente todos vosotros sep\u00e1is que la cantante Chavela Vargas, de 95 a\u00f1os, muri\u00f3 hace tres d\u00edas. Mujer de gran personalidad y una voz muy particular, fue musa de escritores, cantantes y directores de cine tales como Jose Alfredo Jimenez, Joaquin Sabina, o Pedro Almodovar. 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