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Violeta Parra
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Chilean musician and folklorist
OverviewAI-generated
Violeta Parra was a Chilean singer-songwriter and folk musician whose career spanned from 1939 to 1967. Born on October 4, 1917, and deceased on February 5, 1967, she was associated with the nueva canción movement and contemporary folk music. Her musical style is categorized under Chilean music and Hispanic American folk music.
As an author, Parra produced sixteen works, including *El libro mayor de Violeta Parra*, *Centésimas de alma*, and *21 son los dolores*. Her discography and literary output have been referenced in 251 other encyclopedia articles. She is recognized as a female vocalist within the folk genre.
Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1917
- Died
- 1967
- Works
- 16
Top works
- El libro mayor de Violeta Parra
- Centésimas de alma
- 21 son los dolores
- 21 son los dolores
- 21 {i.e. Veintiuno} son los dolores
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Chile
- Active from
- 1917-10-04
- Active to
- 1967-02-05
Discography
- Cantos de Chile1956
- El folklore de Chile, vol. I: Violeta Parra, canto y guitarra1957
- El folklore de Chile, vol. II: Violeta Parra, acompañándose en guitarra1958
- El folklore de Chile, vol. III: La cueca presentada por Violeta Parra1959
- El folklore de Chile, vol. IV: La tonada presentada por Violeta Parra1959
- El folklore de Chile, vol. VIII: Toda Violeta Parra1961
- El folklore de Chile según Violeta Parra1962
- Recordando a Chile: Una chilena en París1965
- Las últimas composiciones de Violeta Parra1966
- Décimas1976
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 117,737
- Total plays
- 2,090,359
Tags
Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval (4 October 1917 – 5 February 1967) was a Chilean composer, folklorist, ethnomusicologist, and visual artist. She pioneered the Nueva Canción Chilena (Chilean' New Song), a renewal and a reinvention of Chilean folk music which would extend its sphere of influence outside Chile. In 2011 Andrés Wood directed a biopic about her, titled Violeta Went to Heaven. Parra was born in San Fabián de Alico, near San Carlos <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Violeta+Parra">R
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas
· 2005 · cited 16,646x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,795x
- Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>
· 2017 · cited 3,668x
- Identification and inhibition of the ICE/CED-3 protease necessary for mammalian apoptosis
· 1995 · cited 3,259x
- Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants
· 2021 · cited 3,156x
via Crossref · CC0
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
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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.