Violeta Parra

Known for

Sound

Gender

Female

Born

October 4, 1917

Age at death

49

Died

February 5, 1967

From

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 "the Mother of Latin American folk".