Violeta Parra

Violeta Parra

Sound Oct 4, 1917 Feb 5, 1967 (aged 50) San Carlos, Ñuble Province, Chile

Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval was a Chilean composer, singer-songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist. She pioneered the Nueva Canción Chilena, a renewal and a reinvention of Chilean folk music that would extend its sphere of influence outside Chile. Parra is acknowledged as "the Mother of Latin American folk".

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