Known For: Sound
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Status: Deceased at 49 years old (death on 05/02/1967)
Date of Birth: 04/10/1917
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 "the Mother of Latin American folk".