Chavela Vargas

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4.8 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Today's episode is on Mexican singer Chavela Vargas. Listen to learn about her influence over the traditional Mexican music scene, her relationship with the famous artist Frida Kahlo and how it's never too late to start an international music career. Sources

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queer as Fact.
0:01.6	I'm Irene.
0:02.4	I'm Alice.
0:03.2	I'm Eli.
0:04.2	And today we'll be talking about Mexican singer Chavella Vargas.
0:07.4	...before we start, I have a few content warnings.
0:20.4	This episode contains mention of alcohol abuse and alcoholism, firearms,
0:26.2	brief mentions of domestic violence, and one use of the word bitch in a quote.
0:31.4	If any of that's something you don't want to hear, feel free to skip this episode and check out some of our others.
0:36.9	They have different content warnings. This is the second time we to skip this episode and check out some of our others. They have different content
0:38.0	warnings. This is the second time we've recorded this episode. We did record it around this time
0:43.9	last year and some things went horribly wrong. Some things mainly. No further details there.
0:52.1	No further details. It's classified. Adapt's classified. So we decided to hold off on that
0:58.6	episode until this year because two days after you hear this, assuming you listen to this the
1:04.7	second it comes out because you're a very keen fan, two days after you hear this is actually
1:09.4	Chabella Vargas's 100th birthday.
1:11.5	Or would be.
1:12.4	Oh, would be.
1:13.2	She is dead.
1:14.1	So we're talking about, as I said, Chavella Vargas, or very occasionally, Chabella Vargas
1:19.0	with a bee.
1:19.9	I mentioned this, I only ever saw that spelling in one academic paper, but in that paper,
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