Violeta Parra
Personal information
- Known for
- Sound
- Known credits
- 11
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- October 4, 1917
- Died
- February 5, 1967
- Place of birth
- San Carlos, Ñuble Province, Chile
- Also known as
- Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval
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".
