Composer Violeta Parra

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Violeta Parra

Living place: Chile

Birthday: 4-10-1917

Global rank: #44278

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Who is Composer Violeta Parra?
Famous Chilean folklore, ethnomusicologist, and visual artist. She is a leading exponent of the Chilena Nueva canción movement. Her life was the subject of the biopic "Violeta Went to Heaven" from 2011 which was directed by Andrés Wood.
She was only 49 when she died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to her head.
 
 

Young / Before famous

She is politically active and a member of the Communist Party of Chile.

Family life info

Her family has been noted for their contributions to Chilean folk music, and her children also became folklorists.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Composer Violeta Parra?
The song "Gracias a la Vida" was made popular in the United States by Joan Baez.

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When was Composer Violeta Parra born?
Violeta Parra was born in 4-10-1917, death year is , at the age of 107.
Where is Composer Violeta Parra's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Violeta Parra was born in . is a Composer, whose Zodiac is Libra, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Snake. Violeta Parra's global rank is 44278 and whose rank is 249 in list of famous Composer.
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Events in 1917 and 4-10

Events in the world in the birth year of Violeta Parra

  • First U.S. combat troops arrive in France as U.S. declares war on Germany (April 6). Background: World War I
  • Third Battle of Ypres is fought. Background: World War I
  • World-wide influenza pandemic strikes; by 1920, nearly 20 million are dead. In U.S. alone, 500,000 perish. Background: Major U.S. Epidemics
  • Dutch dancer Mata Hari is convicted and executed as a German spy.
  • Government offices are seized and the Romanov's Winter Palace is stormed in Russian October Revolution.

Birthday Violeta Parra (4-10) in history

  • Day 4-10 year 1887: The International Herald Tribune was published for the first time.
  • Day 4-10 year 1895: The first U.S. Open Golf tournament was held in Newport, Rhode Island.
  • Day 4-10 year 1957: The Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, into orbit around the earth, ushering in the Space Age and Space Race.
  • Day 4-10 year 1965: Pope Paul VI made the first visit to the Western Hemisphere by a reigning pope. He came to New York to address the UN General Assembly.
  • Day 4-10 year 1970: Rock singer Janis Joplin was found dead of a drug overdose at age 27.
  • Day 4-10 year 1990: The German parliament met for the first time since the reunification of Germany.
  • Day 4-10 year 2001: Authorities confirmed a tabloid editor in Florida had contracted anthrax. He died the next day.
  • Day 4-10 year 2002: John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban," received a 20-year sentence.
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