Violeta Parra

Born: 1917-10-04

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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Viola Chilensis

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2003-05-05

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Canto Libre - den fria sången

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1980-01-05

A concert program about the current development of the free Latin American music presented by a...

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Después de… Segunda parte: atado y bien atado

as Self
Released: 1983-11-07

A history of the Spanish Transition told in first person by the main protagonists: on the one...

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Violeta más viva que nunca

as Herself (archive footage)
Released: 2017-01-06

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