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Song : Gracias a la vida ( Thanks to life )
Composer : VIOLETA PARRA

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"Las Últimas Composiciones" de Violeta Parra fue elegido como el mejor disco chileno de todos los tiempos, según la revista Rolling Stone.
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Web Oficial : http://www.violetaparra.cl
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ENGLISH BIOGRAPHY
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Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval (October 14, 1917 - February 5, 1967) was a notable Chilean folklorist. She set the basis for "The New Song" (La Nueva Canción chilena), a renewal of Chilean folk music. Parra was born in San Carlos, province of Ñuble, a small town in southern Chile. She established the first Peña, (now known as la Peña de los Parra). A peña is a social and political community center. The word is Spanish for "hard rock." There are now many peñas throughout Chile, Latin America, and in North America, Europe, and Australia.
Violeta Parra is a member of the prolific Parra family. Her brother is the notable modern poet, Nicanor Parra. Her son, Ángel Parra, and her daughter, Isabel Parra, are also important figures in the development of Nueva Canción in Chile.
She committed suicide at the age of fifty.
Her most famous song, Gracias A la Vida, was popularized in the US by Joan Baez. It remains one of the most covered Latin American songs in history.

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LYRIC : Thanks to life
( Violeta Parra)

Thanks to life, which has given me so much
It has given me two eyes, and when I open them

I clearly distinguish black from white
And in the high sky, its starry depths,
And from the crowds, the man that I love.

Thanks to life, which has given me so much
It has given me hearing, which in all its breadth Day and night records crickets and canaries,Hammers, turbines, barking, dark clouds,And the tender voice of my beloved one.

Thanks to life, which has given me so much
It has given me sound and the alphabet
And with it the words to think and speak
Mother, friend, brother, and the light that brightens The path of the soul of my loved one.

Thanks to life, which has given me so much
It has kept my tired feet walking
With them I walked through cities and puddles,Beaches and deserts, mountains and plains And your house, your street and your courtyard.

Thanks to life, which has given me so much
It gave me my heart, which shakes its frame
When I look at the fruit of the human brain
When I look at good ones so far from bad ones
When I look at the bottom of your light-color eyes.

Thanks to life, which has given me so much
It has given me laughter and it has given me tears Thus I distinguish between joy and pain,
They are all elements of my song
and of all your songs, which is the same song and of everyone's song, which is my own song.

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  • Para los que no bardean. Las gracias es porque puedas ver,oir,escribir y muchas otras cosas que muchos no agradecen y piensan que es un derecho y yo les digo que NO. la sordera ya la ceguera son dificiles de superar. GRACIAS A LA VIDA POR TODO LO QUE PUEDO HACER AHORA

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  • Gracias a la vida - -  Cancion profunda de profundo sentimiento fortaleza agradecimiento de recibir tan especial Regalo - Violeta parra Gran compositora y que EXCELENTE CANCION lastima que los golpes de la vida te hayan votado llevandote al terminar por ti misma con la vida. Cada quien este recibiendo golpes constantes TRISTEZA DOLOR CANSANCIO DESESPERACION pero la vida bien o mal SIGUE SIENDO UN REGALO QUE SOLAMENTE UNA VES LA TENEMOS Y NO HAY MAS asi que a valorarla no nos Ataquemos.

  • Gracias a la vida por violeta parra.

  • Violeta Parra con su sencillez, por citar una de sus múltiples cualidades llega a lo más profundo del corazón...Gracias Violeta!!! donde te encuentres...

  • Qué hermosa Violeta! cómo la queremos también de este lado de la cordillera, donde también nos honró con su presencia unos años (vivió en la pampa). Abrazos para chile y se me pianta un lagrimón...

  • si violeta hubiera nacido en alemania ,seria tan grande como beethoven

  • WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!

  • Qué pasada. La conocía por la versión de Joan Baez pero no había escuchado el original. Qué maravilla de intensidad y sencillez, parece salida de la misma tierra, se queda uno estremecido.

  • If this artist had only given the world this one great masterpiece, this one song, it would have been enough. Violeta Parra will live forever.

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