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Violeta Parra vinyl records

5 albums with 83 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval. Violeta Parra (born October 14, 1917 in San Carlos de Itihue, Chile) was a notable Chilean folklorist and visual artist. She set the basis for Nueva Canción Chilena, a renewal and a reinvention of Chilean folk music. Parra revived the Peña, (now known as La Peña de Los Parra), a community center for the arts and for political activism. Her most renowned song, Gracias a la Vida, was popularized throughout Latin America by Mercedes Sosa and later in the US by Joan Baez. It remains one of the most covered Latin American songs. From 1949 to 1952 she formed a duo with her sister, Hilda Parra: "Las Hermanas Parra".