Violeta Parra
Violeta Parra
Birthday: 04 Oct 1917
Day of death: 05 Feb 1967
Birth place: San Carlos, Ñuble Province, Chile
Bio:
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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