September was the first time Encore Seraphine recorded
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I used to drink tequila. I drank everything I ever owned.
Quotation from Costa Rica-born Chavela Vargas, also known as “La Chabelaâ€
When you like something, you should do it all night long.
Another quotation from vocalist Chavela Vargas
I am a friend of life. At 80, life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.
Another quotation from Chavela Vargas, who publicly came out as a lesbian
at the age of 81. La Chabela made her Carnegie Hall debut at age 83.
Crossing the Border with Chabela Vargas: A Chicana Femme’s Tribute by Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, Associate Professor of Spanish at Stanford University (Lola Press)