Ranchera legend passes away
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- Published on Friday, 10 August 2012 11:51
- Written by Duncan Tucker
Mexican musical icon Isabel “Chavela” Vargas died at the age of 93 from heart and respiratory problems in a Cuernavaca hospital on Sunday.
Born in Costa Rica in 1919, Vargas moved to Mexico aged 14 to pursue a singing career, quickly adopting the country as her own and achieving great fame in the 1950s through to the mid-1970s.
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