Violeta Parra
October 4, 1917 (106 years old) in San Carlos, Ñuble Province, Chile
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
Credits
- 2017 · Violeta más viva que nunca as Herself (archive footage)
- 2003 · Viola Chilensis as Self (archive footage)
- 1983 · Después de… Segunda parte: atado y bien atado as Self
- 1980 · Canto Libre - den fria sången as Self (archive footage)