1983 — 2017
Violeta Parra
Born Oct 4, 1917October 4, 1917·Died Feb 5, 1967February 5, 1967·49 years
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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