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“See for yourself, and if you don’t know her already, I dare you to walk away and not become a fan.”
NEWS
Ann Arbor Folk Festival Performer Gina Chavez Is the Boss in Both English and Spanish (Pride Source)
Arts+Culture Local Limelight: Meet Gina Chavez (Austin Life Magazine)
Exclusive Interview - Gina Chávez - Austin City Limits 2021 (Unleashed LGBTQ)
NPR Music Live Session: “She Persisted” (KUTX Pop-Up at ACL Fest)
ACL Fest Day 2 picks: Who we think you need to see on Saturday (Austin American-Statesman)
ACL Recommendations - Fresh sounds that emanate from the Lone Star State (Austin Chronicle)
TM Recommends: 2021 ACL Music Festival Edition (Texas Monthly)
Gina Chavez Picks Her 5 Favorite Tiny Desk Contest Entries (NPR)
Brené Brown with Gina Chavez and Carrie Rodriguez on the Heart and Soul of Music (Unlocking Us)
Gina Chavez: The Woman in Charge (KUTX Austin, Artist Of The Month)
“A fearless talent.”
“Her voice stops you in your tracks.”
BIOGRAPHY
In an industry that looks to define artists, Gina Chávez refuses to fit into a box. From features on NPR’s Tiny Desk to Brené Brown to Colbert, this queer, bilingual, genre-bending musician has become a force to be reckoned with. Chávez — a truly independent recording artist — saw the fruits of her labor pay off last year where she was not only nominated for a Latin Grammy but was tapped to open the Latin Grammy premiere show. Now, the Texas native can be seen everywhere as one of the faces of LifeWTR’s #LifeUnseen campaign — with her own bottle and a commercial airing nationwide. There’s no way around it: Gina Chávez won’t be ignored.
Only the second Austinite and the third Latina born in the continental U.S. to receive a Latin Grammy nomination in the history of the awards, it has been thrilling for Gina to push boundaries and break barriers without the support of a label. And for this year’s Pride Month, she’s continuing to do just that. In the midst of her own creative rebirth, she’s coming out with a fist pumping club remix of her 2020 feminist anthem “She Persisted,” a rallying cry born out of the moment that Elizabeth Warren was silenced on the floor of the Senate by Mitch McConnell in 2016.
Gina finds herself trying to make space for levity in a year marred with record-shattering attacks on LGBTQ rights in statehouses across the U.S. Her native Texas leads the way in anti-LGBTQ bills, most of them attacking trans youth. “The so-called pro-life party is literally trying to erase us,” she says, “but we aren’t going anywhere. We’re getting louder and gayer and I’ve got just the song to keep us going!”
The “She Persisted Remix” is a pulsating, club-ready banger bursting with glittery synths and an equally vibrant video featuring drag queens from RuPaul’s Drag Race. With an all-female, queer, bipoc cast and crew, Gina teamed up with Season 12’s Rock M Sakura, Season 8 and Season 9’s Cynthia Lee Fontaine and Season 2’s Kylie Sonique Love, the first contestant from "Drag Race" to come out as transgender who also returns this year for RuPaul’s “All Stars 6.”
“I remember when I came out to my parents, I promised them I wouldn’t be marching in gay pride parades or anything,” Gina laughs. “Well, let’s just say I’ve landed queerly in the gay zone and I’m loving it! As a straight-passing lesbian and a white-passing Latina, it took me awhile to understand that the rights I enjoy are thanks to trans women of color and drag queens who were on the front lines of gay rights before there ever was a movement. . . .
“While so many of the lineups for major music festivals bounce between trendy acts, nostalgia bands and industry staples, Gina Chávez is a breath of fresh air.”