Violeta Parra

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".

Top 10 collaborators

2 collaborations (as Director)

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Sergio M. Castilla

1 collaboration (as Director)

1 collaboration

Alejandro Jodorowsky

1 collaboration

Salvador Allende

1 collaboration

1 collaboration

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Silvio Rodríguez

1 collaboration

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1 collaboration (as Director; Writer)

1 collaboration (as Director)

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1 collaboration

Roles

Match

Violeta más viva que nunca (2017)

Herself (archive footage)

Viola Chilensis (2003)

Self (archive footage)

Crew

Viola Chilensis (2003)

I Wish, I Wish I Had a Child (1974)

Compañero Presidente (1971)

Original Music Composer