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Violeta Parra

Pioneer of the Nueva Canción Chilena and collector of Chilean folk music.

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Violeta Parra

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Her birthdate, 4 October, is celebrated as "Chilean Musicians' Day"[1] In 2011, Andrés Wood directed a biopic about her titled Violeta Went to Heaven.[1] Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval, a Chilean composer, singer-songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist, and visual artist, was the originator of the Nueva Canción Chilena, a movement that renewed and reinvented Chilean folk music and expanded its influence beyond Chile.[2]

Making and release

She began singing and playing guitar in Chillán with her siblings Hilda, Eduardo and Roberto.[3] She resumed performing in 1944 under the name "Violeta de Mayo"[4][5] With her sister Hilda she formed "The Parra Sisters" and recorded for RCA VICTOR.[6][5] She hosted the radio program Sing Violeta Parra for Radio Chilena between January and September 1954.[7][5]

The Violeta Parra Foundation and the Violeta Parra Museum both give Violeta Parra's birthplace as San Fabián de Alico, not San Carlos, though her birth certificate says San Carlos; her birth date was 4 October 1917.[8][5][9] In 1938, Violeta Parra married railway driver Luis Cereceda and paused her music career to raise a family.[10] At her brother Nicanor's urging, in 1952 Violeta Parra started gathering and compiling authentic Chilean folk music from throughout the country, discarding her earlier folk-song repertoire and creating her own songs based on traditional folk forms.[11] In July 1955, Violeta Parra was invited to the World Festival of Youth and Students in Warsaw, Poland; after that she relocated to Paris, France, and gave performances at the nightclub "L'Escale" in the Quartier Latin.[7]

In November 1957, Violeta Parra recorded the first LP in the series "El folklore de Chile" for the EMI Odeón label, titled Violeta Parra y su guitarra, which included three of her own compositions.[12][5]

What the cited sources add

The Fundacion Violeta Parra notes that in 1960 her brother Nicanor recorded the poem "Defensa de Violeta Parra" with Violeta accompanying on guitar.[5] The Museo Violeta Parra states that in 1953 Pablo Neruda wrote the poem "Elegía para cantar" for her.[13] The Tranvias.uy account reports that in 1966 EMI-Odeon released the LP Carpa de La Reina and the EP El tocador afuerino.[14] The same source notes that in December 1972 the work Canto para una semilla premiered at the Teatro Antonio Varas in Santiago.[14]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Violeta Parra" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Wood, "Violeta se fue a los cielos", Agência Nacional do Cinema (ANCINE), BG TV, Banco Estado, 2011-08-11 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Violeta Parra" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Fernandez Santos, "El País", 4 February 2012; "Nueva canción Latin American Music, Protest Songs & Social Change Britannica", www.britannica.com (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Violeta Parra" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Batlle Lathrop, "Violeta Parra: musical and political legacy of a cantora: Ethnomusicology Forum", Ethnomusicology Forum, December 2021, p. 358–378; Vilches, "Mapping Violeta Parra's Cultural Landscapes", Springer International Publishing, 2018, p. 1–10; Verba, "Violeta Parra: Her Life, Work, and Legacy", 2021-12-22 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Violeta Parra" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Batlle Lathrop, "Violeta Parra: musical and political legacy of a cantora: Ethnomusicology Forum", Ethnomusicology Forum, December 2021, p. 358–378; Batlle Lathrop, "Violeta Parra: musical and political legacy of a cantora: Ethnomusicology Forum", Ethnomusicology Forum, December 2021, p. 358–378; Batlle Lathrop, "Violeta Parra: musical and political legacy of a cantora", Ethnomusicology Forum, 2021-09-02, p. 358–378 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Fundacion Violeta Parra. facts only, no text reused. fundacionvioletaparra.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Violeta Parra" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Violeta Parra - Las Ultimas Composiciones De Violeta Parra", 1966; Batlle Lathrop, "Violeta Parra: musical and political legacy of a cantora", Ethnomusicology Forum, 2021-09-02, p. 358–378 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Violeta Parra" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Verba, "Violeta Parra: Her Life, Work, and Legacy", 2021-12-22 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. "Historia del Museo". facts only, no text reused. museovioletaparra.cl
  9. Wikipedia, "Violeta Parra" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Biografía de Violeta Parra"; Fundacion Violeta Parra; "Historia del Museo" (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Wikipedia, "Violeta Parra" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Batlle Lathrop, "Violeta Parra: musical and political legacy of a cantora: Ethnomusicology Forum", Ethnomusicology Forum, December 2021, p. 358–378 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  11. Wikipedia, "Violeta Parra" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Violeta Parra 100 años" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  12. Wikipedia, "Violeta Parra" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Violeta Parra » Cronología de Violeta Parra", www.violetaparra.cl (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  13. "Neruda, Elegía para Cantar.", Museo Violeta Parra. facts only, no text reused. museovioletaparra.cl
  14. Tranvias.uy, "Tranvias.uy - Violeta Parra 100 años", Tranvias.uy. facts only, no text reused. tranvias.uy

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Violeta Parra (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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