Violeta Parra

Personal Info

Known For Sound

Gender Female

Birthday 1917-10-04

Deathday 1967-02-05 (49 years old)

Place of Birth San Carlos, Ñuble Province, Chile

Also Known As Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval

Violeta Parra

Biography

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

Sound

2003
1959
Trilla

as Music

1958
Mimbre

as Original Music Composer

1958
Andacollo

as Music

Actor

2017
Violeta más viva que nunca

as Herself (archive footage)

2003
Viola Chilensis

as Self (archive footage)

1980
Canto Libre - den fria sången

as Self (archive footage)