#chavela vargas

Día 3.- Chavela Vargas

Almost finished this commissioned job of the iconic Mexican singer, CHAVELA VARGAS

I had the chance to be among amazing artists that Milano PrideandMana Project Studio contacted to make a series of pictures tribute to lgbtqia important characters who have stepped on this earth. So I took the occasion to draw one of my favourite music artists, Chavela Vargas!

“Chavela Vargas is proof of how beautiful contradictions are and how senseless it is to call them that. Costa Rican, in the 60s she asserts herself in a male oriented musical genre (the ranchero music). Her only religion: life. She wears a red poncho, she smokes, she drinks, she shoots with a gun and she loves women. In her list of lovers Frida Kahlo and Ava Gardner. So to sum it up: this atheist costarican butch lesbian and alcoholic is one of the most interesting and sensitive human beings who have walked, screamed and struggled her way on this earth and she is now without a doubt the symbol, the heart, of a very manly music genre, in a foreign land (Mexico) which is also a traditionalist, machista and catholic country. Que guapa!”

Happy pride month everyone <3
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Coming together  
it is easier to work  
after our bodies  
meet
paper and pen
neither care nor profit
whether we write or not
but as your body moves
under my hands  
charged and waiting  
we cut the leash
you create me against your thighs  
hilly with images
moving through our word countries  
my body
writes into your flesh
the poem
you make of me.

Touching you I catch midnight  
as moon fires set in my throat  
I love you flesh into blossom  
I made you
and take you made
into me.

- Audre Lorde / Recreation

• Frida Kahlo & Chavela Vargas, 1945 - photographed by Nickolas Muray

Chavela Vargas