Violeta Parra, Chilean Singer And Poet
(Literatura hispano-americana)
Violeta Del Carmen Parra Sandoval, Chilean poet and singer, was born in San Carlos from a peasant's family. She had eight brothers - many of them also became poets and singes, as well as her children and grandchildren. When her motherClarisa Sandoval Navarrete became a widow, she married again with Violeta's father, Nicanor Parra, an ordinary man, who worked as a elementary teacher and became famous for promoting Chilean folklore. The poet Violeta Parra had a very difficult life; her family was poor and it led her to start working in an early age. Since she was a girl she showed a strong personality; taught by her father, Violeta and her brothers learned to sing in order to earn some money and survive from their talents. When her father died, the family's financial situation got worse and Violeta nad her brothers started touring through the countryside to perform and earn some money from their shows. When she was fifteen years old, she made a duo with her sister Hilda and they both went to Santiago, Chile's capital. A few years later she met Luis Cereceda and married him. They had two daughters, Isabel e Angel. However, her music was the reason to her divorce from Luis. In 1953, Violeta made her debut in the Chilean radio, singing Chilean folklore songs. After she recorded her first album, she took part in many political and social movements on behalf of the marginalized people. Her voice became, then, the "voice of the poor and the opressed". She travelled through the world denouncing the opression. She got the nickname "the Bee Queen of Chilean New Song". Besides being an excellent singer, she was also a painter, a sculptor and an artisan, using her art to express her wishes for a better world. She was married three times; later, because of a terrible state of solitude and depression, she committed suicide in 1967, a few days after composing one of the most beautiful and famous of her songs: "Gracias a la Vida".
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