Chavela, the Shaman

Singer Chavela Vargas was born in Mexico in 1942. When she donned her pants and red sarape or jorongo, strapped on her huaraches, and began singing her heartache—telling her songs like only she could—she did so in cabarets and cantinas. Before that was a long flight forward, a battle against everything, against the world.
A friend of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Pablo Neruda, Joaquín Sabina, and Pedro Almodóvar, Chavela embodies the spirit of an era born from revolutions, guitars, addictions, and heartbreaks. This book captures the moments that forged the legend, brought to life through the paintings of artist Irene Mala and the texts by Salva F. Romero.