Violeta Parra, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1967)

Violeta Parra

Chilean musician and folklorist (1917-1967)

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.