Image of Violeta Parra

Violeta Parra

1917-10-04 San Carlos, Ñuble Province, Chile

Image of Violeta Parra

Biografia

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".

Películas

Violeta más viva que nunca Herself (archive footage) 2017-01-06
Viola Chilensis Self (archive footage) 2003-05-05
Después de… Segunda parte: atado y bien atado Self 1983-11-07
Canto Libre - den fria sången Self (archive footage) 1980-01-05