1917 - 1967
Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval (Spanish pronunciation: [bjoˈleta ˈpara]; 4 October 1917 – 5 February 1967) was a Chilean composer, singer-songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist. She pioneered the Nueva Canción Chilena (The Chilean New Song), a renewal and a reinvention of Chilean folk music that would extend its sphere of influence outside Chile. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Violeta Parra has received more than 493,886 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Violeta Parra is the 188th most popular musician (up from 190th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Chile (up from 13th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Chilean Musician.
Violeta Parra is most famous for her song "Gracias a la Vida" which she wrote and composed.
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Among musicians, Violeta Parra ranks 188 out of 2,675. Before her are Isaac Stern, John Paul Jones, Gilberto Gil, Alicia Keys, John Cale, and J. J. Cale. After her are Bill Wyman, Giovanni Battista Viotti, Pete Townshend, Nikolai Rubinstein, Dr. Alban, and Kitarō.
1920 - 2001
HPI: 70.47
Rank: 182
1946 - Present
HPI: 70.47
Rank: 183
1942 - Present
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 184
1981 - Present
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 185
1942 - Present
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 186
1938 - 2013
HPI: 70.29
Rank: 187
1917 - 1967
HPI: 70.27
Rank: 188
1936 - Present
HPI: 70.26
Rank: 189
1755 - 1824
HPI: 70.26
Rank: 190
1945 - Present
HPI: 70.26
Rank: 191
1835 - 1881
HPI: 70.25
Rank: 192
1957 - Present
HPI: 70.12
Rank: 193
1953 - Present
HPI: 70.10
Rank: 194
Among people born in 1917, Violeta Parra ranks 45. Before her are James Rainwater, Joan Clarke, Robert Burns Woodward, Danielle Darrieux, Algirdas Julien Greimas, and Thelonious Monk. After her are Maurice Duverger, Dinu Lipatti, Susan Hayward, Hirokazu Ninomiya, Vera Lynn, and Leonid Hurwicz. Among people deceased in 1967, Violeta Parra ranks 32. Before her are Brian Epstein, Hermann Joseph Muller, Luigi Tenco, Robert van Gulik, Otis Redding, and John Cockcroft. After her are Héctor Scarone, Anthony Mann, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Françoise Dorléac, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, and Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco.
1917 - 1986
HPI: 71.02
Rank: 39
1917 - 1996
HPI: 70.94
Rank: 40
1917 - 1979
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 41
1917 - 2017
HPI: 70.92
Rank: 42
1917 - 1992
HPI: 70.87
Rank: 43
1917 - 1982
HPI: 70.64
Rank: 44
1917 - 1967
HPI: 70.27
Rank: 45
1917 - 2014
HPI: 70.08
Rank: 46
1917 - 1950
HPI: 70.03
Rank: 47
1917 - 1975
HPI: 69.98
Rank: 48
1917 - 2000
HPI: 69.96
Rank: 49
1917 - 2020
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 50
1917 - 2008
HPI: 69.81
Rank: 51
1934 - 1967
HPI: 71.98
Rank: 26
1890 - 1967
HPI: 71.29
Rank: 27
1938 - 1967
HPI: 71.11
Rank: 28
1910 - 1967
HPI: 70.97
Rank: 29
1941 - 1967
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 30
1897 - 1967
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 31
1917 - 1967
HPI: 70.27
Rank: 32
1898 - 1967
HPI: 70.24
Rank: 33
1906 - 1967
HPI: 70.24
Rank: 34
1873 - 1967
HPI: 70.12
Rank: 35
1942 - 1967
HPI: 70.09
Rank: 36
1897 - 1967
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 37
1897 - 1967
HPI: 69.98
Rank: 38
Among people born in Chile, Violeta Parra ranks 12 out of 225. Before her are Víctor Jara (1932), Gabriela Mistral (1889), Luis Sepúlveda (1949), Bernardo O'Higgins (1778), Sebastián Piñera (1949), and Claudio Arrau (1903). After her are Patricio Aylwin (1918), Manuel Pellegrini (1953), Roberto Bolaño (1953), Eduardo Frei Montalva (1911), Ricardo Lagos (1938), and Hugo Gunckel Lüer (1901).
1932 - 1973
HPI: 74.81
Rank: 6
1889 - 1957
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 7
1949 - 2020
HPI: 73.12
Rank: 8
1778 - 1842
HPI: 72.29
Rank: 9
1949 - Present
HPI: 72.28
Rank: 10
1903 - 1991
HPI: 71.38
Rank: 11
1917 - 1967
HPI: 70.27
Rank: 12
1918 - 2016
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 13
1953 - Present
HPI: 69.53
Rank: 14
1953 - 2003
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 15
1911 - 1982
HPI: 68.62
Rank: 16
1938 - Present
HPI: 68.43
Rank: 17
1901 - 1997
HPI: 68.36
Rank: 18
Among musicians born in Chile, Violeta Parra ranks 2. Before her are Claudio Arrau (1903). After her are Tom Araya (1961).
1903 - 1991
HPI: 71.38
Rank: 1
1917 - 1967
HPI: 70.27
Rank: 2
1961 - Present
HPI: 63.68
Rank: 3