Person

Violeta Parra

Sound · 1917–1967 · 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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  Andacollo

  Music

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  Violeta más viva que nunca

  Herself (archive footage)

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  Viola Chilensis

  Self (archive footage)

• Trilla

  Music

• Mimbre

  Original Music Composer

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  Soins et beauté

  Music

• I Wish, I Wish I Had a Child

  Music

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  Canto Libre - den fria sången

  Self (archive footage)

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  Compañero Presidente

  Music

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  Después de… Segunda parte: atado y bien atado

  Self

• 2017Violeta más viva que nuncaHerself (archive footage)
• 2003Viola ChilensisSelf (archive footage)
• 2000Soins et beautéMusic
• 1983Después de… Segunda parte: atado y bien atadoSelf
• 1980Canto Libre - den fria sångenSelf (archive footage)
• 1974I Wish, I Wish I Had a ChildMusic
• 1971Compañero PresidenteMusic
• 1960Los artistas plásticos de ChileMusic
• 1959TrillaMusic
• 1958MimbreOriginal Music Composer
• 1958AndacolloMusic