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Violeta Parra
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Chilean musician and folklorist
Film & TV
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".
Known for
- Violeta más viva que nunca — Herself (archive footage)2017
- Viola Chilensis — Self (archive footage)2003
- Después de… Segunda parte: atado y bien atado — Self1983
- Canto Libre - den fria sången — Self (archive footage)1980
via TMDB
Key facts
- Born
- Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval , ( 1917-10-04 ) 4 October 1917, San Fabián de Alico or , San Carlos , Chile
- Died
- 5 February 1967 (1967-02-05) (aged 49), Santiago , Chile
- Genres
- Folk , experimental , nueva canción , cueca
- Occupations
- Singer-songwriter, Visual arts
- Instruments
- Vocals, Guitar, Charango , Cuatro , Percussion, Harp
- Years active
- 1939–1967
- Labels
- EMI-Odeon , Alerce, Warner Music Group , (all posthumous)
- Website
- web .archive .org /web /20000621221302 /http: //www .violetaparra .scd .cl /index .htm /
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Parra
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Chile
- Place of birth
- San Carlos
- Place of death
- La Reina
- Child
- Isabel Parra
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Employer
- University of Concepción
- Political party
- Communist Party of Chile
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- Spanish
- Field of work
- music composing
- Genre
- protest song
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Parra01f.PNG
- Voice type
- mezzo-soprano
Show 10 more facts
- has works in the collection
- Memoria Chilena
- date of birth
- 1917-10-04
- date of death
- 1967-02-05
- Commons category
- Violeta Parra
- second family name in Spanish name
- Sandoval
- start of work period
- 1939-00-00
- birth name
- Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval
- place of burial
- Santiago General Cemetery
- manner of death
- Suicide
- end of work period
- 1967-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval ( Spanish pronunciation: [bjoˈleta ˈpara]; 4 October 1917 – 5 February 1967) was a Chilean composer, singer-songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist. She pioneered the Nueva Canción Chilena (The Chilean New Song), a renewal and a reinvention of Chilean folk music that would extend its sphere of influence outside Chile.
Her birthdate (4 October) was chosen as "Chilean Musicians' Day." In 2011, Andrés Wood directed a biopic about her, titled Violeta Went to Heaven (Spanish: Violeta se fue a los cielos).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Violeta Parra” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.