Genias in Music: Violeta Parra
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Violeta Parra changed music in her native Chile and beyond. She is known as the \\u201cMother of La Nueva Canci\\xf3n,\\u201d a political folk music movement that swept Latin America in the late 1960s. Most people might have heard a version of her masterpiece \\u201cGracias a la vida,\\u201d which has been covered countless times across the world. But behind that anthem of gratitude there is a deeply existential and complex musician who presented love as an ethical principle in her songs, even when her own life was marked by loss and illness.
\\n\\nIn the latest episode of our Genias in Music series \\u2014about the lives and work of notable women musicians\\u2014 we dive into the complexities of Violeta Parra, a pioneer of political folk music in Latin America.
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