
Vargas, Chavela
Cupaima (cd+dvd)
Cupaima presents the painfully accumulated experience of a woman who approaches her art like a warrior. Vargas relates, "I am not a normal person. Ever since I was very young, I never did what people wanted me to do." For her, life's most precious quality is libertad-a sense of freedom and personal integrity that nothing can wrest away from those determined to hold onto it, whatever the personal suffering. As in her riveting interpretation of "La llorona," she cries, "I gave you my life already, Llorona, and yet you ask for more."