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Violeta Parra
SoundBorn October 4, 1917 (49 years old at death)· Died February 5, 1967
San Carlos, Ñuble Province, Chile
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".
Also known as: Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval
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