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Chavela Vargas

1919 - 2012

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Chavela Vargas (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃaˈβela ˈβaɾɣas]; born María Isabel Anita Carmen de Jesús Vargas Lizano; 17 April 1919 – 5 August 2012) was a Costa Rican-born Mexican singer, she gained widespread recognition for her distinctive interpretations of Mexican rancheras. However, her impact extends beyond this genre, encompassing various styles within popular Latin American music. An influential interpreter, Vargas left a legacy on both the Americas and Europe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chavela Vargas has received more than 865,308 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Chavela Vargas is the 200th most popular singer (down from 184th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Costa Rica and the most popular Costa Rican Singer.

Chavela Vargas is a famous Mexican singer who is most famous for her songs about love, death, and the Mexican Revolution.

Memorability Metrics

  • 870k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Chavela Vargas ranks 200 out of 3,528Before her are Drake, Udo Jürgens, Sam Cooke, Mariska Veres, Lara Fabian, and Mario Del Monaco. After her are Giuseppe Di Stefano, Cass Elliot, Kyu Sakamoto, Lola Flores, Kenny Rogers, and Tom Morello.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Chavela Vargas ranks 45Before her are Jackie Robinson, Hermine Braunsteiner, Pete Seeger, Oleg Penkovsky, Iris Murdoch, and César Manrique. After her are James Lovelock, Georges Duby, Lauri Törni, Martin Balsam, Art Blakey, and William Lipscomb. Among people deceased in 2012, Chavela Vargas ranks 51Before her are Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, E. Donnall Thomas, Rodney King, Lucio Dalla, Erland Josephson, and Chadli Bendjedid. After her are F. Sherwood Rowland, Hebe Camargo, Carl Woese, Harry Harrison, William Standish Knowles, and Ben Gazzara.

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In Costa Rica

Among people born in Costa Rica, Chavela Vargas ranks 2 out of 104Before her are Óscar Arias (1940). After her are José Figueres Ferrer (1906), Keylor Navas (1986), Laura Chinchilla (1959), Abel Pacheco (1933), Franklin Chang Díaz (1950), Luis Guillermo Solís (1958), Miguel Ángel Rodríguez (1940), José María Figueres (1954), Teodoro Picado Michalski (1900), and Adolfo Díaz (1875).

Among SINGERS In Costa Rica

Among singers born in Costa Rica, Chavela Vargas ranks 1