Released album “Canta sus últimas composiciones (Con orquesta de cuerda dirigida por Nino García)”.
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Violeta Parra
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.
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culture · Chilean musician and folklorist (1917–1967) · singer-songwriter · poet · painter · sculptor · embroiderer · ceramicist · writer · recording artist · ethnologist · singer · also Violeta Parra, Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval, Parra
Born 4 October 1917 · Died 5 February 1967 · Q230499
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2023· 1 entry
2014· 2 entries
Released album “Sus grandes éxitos”.
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Awarded Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame (2014).
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Latin Grammy Hall of Fame for Gracias a la vida (2013).
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2011· 1 entry
Andrés Wood directed a biopic about her, titled Violeta Went to Heaven (Spanish: Violeta se fue a los cielos)
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2010· 5 entries
Released album “Violeta Parra: Paroles et musiques chantée par Ángel Parra et 4 voix chiliennes”.
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Released album “Cantos chilenos”.
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Released album “En el Aula Magna de Concepción”.
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Released album “Cantos campesinos”.
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Released album “Centésima del alma”.
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2008· 1 entry
Released album “Guitar Music of Chile”.
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2007· 1 entry
The 90th anniversary of her birth was commemorated with an exhibition of her visual work at the Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda and the release of a collection of her art work titled, "Visual Work of Violeta Parra"
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2005· 1 entry
Released album “Puras cuecas”.
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2004· 1 entry
Released album “Grandes éxitos”.
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “Memoria del cantar popular”.
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “Universo latino 9”.
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1999· 3 entries
Released album “Violeta Parra en Ginebra”.
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Released album “Antología”.
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Released album “Composiciones para guitarra”.
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1997· 3 entries
Awarded Orden al Mérito Docente y Cultural Gabriela Mistral (1997).
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With the participation of Violeta Parra Foundation and the Department of Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile, her visual work was exhibited in the Museum of Decorative Arts of the Louvre Museum, Paris
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Released album “La jardinera y su canto”.
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1994· 1 entry
Released album “El folklore y la pasión”.
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1992· 1 entry
The Violeta Parra Foundation was founded at the initiative of her children, with the aim to group, organize and disseminate her still-unpublished work
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1983· 1 entry
Released album “Testimonio”.
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1976· 1 entry
Released album “Décimas”.
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1972· 1 entry
Released album “Mujeres de América Latina”.
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1971· 3 entries
Released album “Canciones”.
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Released album “Canciones reencontradas en París”.
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The song was popularized throughout Latin America by Mercedes Sosa in her album, Homenaje a Violeta Parra, and later in Brazil by Elis Regina and in the US by Joan Baez
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1970· 2 entries
Released album “Gracias A La Vida”.
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Would dedicate the poem "Elegia para Cantar" to her
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1967· 2 entries
Died 1967-02-05.
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Parra died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound
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1966· 2 entries
Released album “Las últimas composiciones de Violeta Parra”.
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Featuring three songs performed by Violeta Parra and nine by guest artists announced at the carpa by Violeta herself
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1965· 2 entries
Released album “Recordando a Chile: Una chilena en París”.
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The publisher François Maspero, Paris, published her book Poésie Populaire des Andes
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1964· 1 entry
Released album “Chants et danses du Chili”.
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1963· 1 entry
Recorded in Paris revolutionary and peasant songs, which would be published in 1971 under the title Songs rediscovered in Paris
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1962· 1 entry
Released album “El folklore de Chile según Violeta Parra”.
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1961· 2 entries
Released album “El folklore de Chile, vol. VIII: Toda Violeta Parra”.
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Traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she exhibited her paintings, appeared on TV, gave recitals at the Teatro IFT, and recorded an album of original songs for EMI Odeon – which was banned
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1959· 3 entries
Released album “El folklore de Chile, vol. IV: La tonada presentada por Violeta Parra”.
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Released album “El folklore de Chile, vol. III: La cueca presentada por Violeta Parra”.
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That forced her to stay in bed, her work as a painter and arpillerista was developed greatly, so much so that that same year, she exhibited her oil paintings and arpilleras at both the First and Second Outdoor Exhibition
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1958· 1 entry
Released album “El folklore de Chile, vol. II: Violeta Parra, acompañándose en guitarra”.
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1957· 1 entry
Released album “El folklore de Chile, vol. I: Violeta Parra, canto y guitarra”.
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1956· 3 entries
Released ep “Chants et danses du Chili I”.
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Released ep “Chants et Danses du Chili II”.
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Released album “Cantos de Chile”.
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1952· 3 entries
Their second child, Rosita Clara was born in 1952, but later died in 1955 while Parra was in Europe.
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Encouraged by her brother Nicanor, Violeta began to collect and collate authentic Chilean folk music from all over the country
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But later died in 1955 while Parra was in Europe
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1949· 1 entry
And their daughter, Carmen Luisa, was born the same year
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1948· 1 entry
Parra and Luis Cerceda separated
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1945· 1 entry
Appeared with her children Isabel and Angel in a Spanish show in the Casanova confectionery
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1944· 1 entry
Parra started to perform again under the name "Violeta de Mayo" (Violeta of May or May Violet)
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1938· 2 entries
They got married in 1938, and Parra took time away from her musical career to start a family.
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And Parra took time away from her musical career to start a family
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1932· 1 entry
At the insistence of her brother Nicanor, Parra moved to Santiago to attend the Normal School, staying with relatives
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1930· 1 entry
From tuberculosis, and her family's quality of life greatly deteriorated
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1917· 1 entry
Born 1917-10-04.
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