Violeta Parra [1064940]
Age: 49 years
Birthday: 1917-10-04
Deathday: 1967-02-05
Birthplace: San Carlos, Ñuble Province, Chile
Credits: 4
Popularity: 0.055
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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".