Chavela Vargas, who defied gender stereotypes to become one of the most legendary singers in Mexico, died Sunday at a hospital in the city of Cuernavaca, where she had been admitted for heart and ...

Performer Isabel Paillao, who goes by the stage name Chavela, has been told she’s an old soul nearly all her life. In fact, people used the term to describe her before she even knew what it meant, she ...