VIOLETA PARRA - Gracias a la vida ( Thanks to life) ORIGINAL version

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Fchile
October 30, 2006

Song : Gracias a la vida ( Thanks to life ) Composer : VIOLETA PARRA ______________________________ ________ Discografía/Discography : http://discosvioleta.blogsp... http://discosvioleta.blogsp... ...

Song : Gracias a la vida ( Thanks to life )
Composer : VIOLETA PARRA
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Discografía/Discography :
http://discosvioleta.blogspot.com
http://discosvioleta.blogspot.com/
http://discosvioleta.blogspot.com/
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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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"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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Viva violeta.

P.D. ojalá todos los chilenos fuéramos tan humildes y sencilla y como violeta.

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Desembarcando en Riñihue
se vio a la Violeta Parra,
sin cuerdas en la guitarra,
sin hojas en el colihue

panamasado (1 week ago) Show Hide

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Con esta cancion me pense en suicidar.
Pero sali adelante

VIVA LA REVOLUCION!!!!!!!

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Fchile (1 week ago) Show Hide

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Pero no te dejan indiferente eh , ya que en otros videos de Violeta también te has metido .

MatiasNoFear (2 days ago) Show Hide

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@celfan789 yo también soy Metalero
pero tengo cultura cosa de lo que tu no tienes al parecer,otra cosa por tu canal solo puedo ver que eres un simple poser
que siga insultaras a lo Beatles o a Elvis?
no jodas y no seas pendejo que según tu canal tienes 39 pero según tu puta cabeza tendrás unos 10 años haber si maduras lacra inculta...

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una persona no desaparece mientras alguien la recuerde. por este motivo violeta sera eterna, como esta canción.

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Just perfect.

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No lo dudo, fue un genio de su época, inolvidable; las luces siempre pueden surgir en la oscuridad... Sin embargo no puedo admirar que agradezca la vida cuando no supo cómo superar sus fantasmas.

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