Violeta Parra
Personal information
- Known for
- Звук
- Known credits
- 11
- Gender
- Женский
- Born
- 4 октября 1917 г.
- Died
- 5 февраля 1967 г.
- 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".
This biography is only available in English.
