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Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval (5 September 1914 – 23 January 2018) was a Chilean physicist and poet. He has been considered one of the most influential Spanish-language Chilean poets of the 20th century. Parra described himself as an "anti-poet" on account of his distaste for poetry's
Members of the Parra family are noted contributors to Chilean culture with almost every member being a distinguished national artist. The family is not closely related to the Parra Pizarro brothers, members of the Chilean rock fusion group Los Jaivas .
Her father, Nicanor Parra Alarcón, was a music teacher. [6] Her mother, Clarisa Sandoval Navarrete had grown up in the countryside and was a seamstress. She sang and played the guitar, and taught Violeta and her siblings traditional folk songs. [ 7 ]
Parra, known as the father of anti-poetry, published his first collection of antipoems in 1954, [3] rejecting the conventional belief that verse holds a mystical power. His poems have been described as prose-like, irreverent, and illuminating of human existential concerns .
The song "Gracias a la vida" was considered as a "humanist hymn" by Chilean music journalist Marisol García. [4] In 2009 the former president Michelle Bachelet expressed her "affection and admiration" for Mercedes Sosa and "Gracias a la vida" with the following phrase: «As you know today, "Gracias a la vida" is a song of ours, but also a universal one.
Parra was born in Chile in 1939 and began her career in music at the age of 13 when she made her first recording with her world-renowned mother, the folklorist Violeta Parra. She has since interpreted and recorded the songs of some of the most famous Latin American folk singers.
The film also follows Parra and Favre's stay in Geneva and Paris, including her visit to the Musée du Louvre, where she became the first Latin American woman to have a solo exhibition. Upon their return to South America, Favre and Parra separated, as he wanted to live in Bolivia, where he was part of a successful Bolivian music group, Los Jairas.
Claudio Parra Pizarro (born September 14, 1945 in Viña del Mar) is a Chilean musician, pianist, and composer. He is one of the founders and current member of Chilean rock band Los Jaivas . He is an undisputed referent of the piano with a properly Chilean sound, and considered one of the most important in the history of popular music in Chile.