Violeta Parra

Known for: Sound / Music
Date of birth: 1917. October 4.
Place of birth: 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 ...