Nueva canción is a left-wing social movement and musical genre in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula, characterized by folk-inspired styles and socially committed lyrics. Nueva canción is widely recognized to have played a profound role in the pro-democracy social upheavals in Portugal, Spain and Latin America during the 1970s and 1980s, and was popular amongst socialist organizations in the region.
Andean music is a group of styles of music from the Andes region in South America.
Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval was a Chilean composer, singer-songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist. She pioneered the Nueva Canción Chilena, a renewal and a reinvention of Chilean folk music that would extend its sphere of influence outside Chile.
Quilapayún are a folk music group from Chile and among the longest lasting and most influential ambassadors of the Nueva Canción Chilena movement and genre. Formed during the mid-1960s, the group became inseparable with the revolution that occurred in the popular music of the country under the Popular Unity Government of Salvador Allende.
Inti-Illimani are an instrumental and vocal Latin American folk music ensemble from Chile. The band was formed in 1967 by a group of university students and it acquired widespread popularity in Chile for their song Venceremos, which became the anthem of the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende. When the 1973 Chilean coup d'état took place, they were on tour in Europe and were unable to return to their country where their music was proscribed by the ruling military junta of Augusto Pinochet. In Europe their music took on a multifarious character, incorporating elements of European baroque and other traditional music forms to their Latin American rhythms, creating a fusion of modern world music. Their name means 'Sun of the Golden Eagle' in Aymara.
Horacio Salinas Álvarez is a Chilean guitarist and composer. He is cofounder and musical director of the Chilean group Inti-Illimani Histórico. He has a huge repertory of compositions that involves folk, Andean music, protest music, world music, contemporary classical music and many Latin American styles and fusions. In 1973, his group was touring in Europe when Augusto Pinochet seized power in Chile, after which they had to stay in exile for years. He has played with many international musicians notably the Australian classical guitarist John Williams.
X Vietnam or Por Vietnam is an album by Quilapayún released in 1968. This was among the first albums to be released under the DICAP label and was a success upon its release in Chile. The music and subject matter of the recording is very internationalist and was the first recording success of the Nueva Canción Chilena.
Luis Advis Vitaglich was a Chilean professor of philosophy, and a noted composer of traditional and New Chilean music. He was officially recognized as a fundamental figures of Chilean music in 2003.
Canto libre is the fifth studio album by Chilean singer-songwriter Víctor Jara, released in 1970 by Odeon. In this album, he had the support of Inti-Illimani and Patricio Castillo.
Iván Patricio Eugenio Manns de Folliot, better known as Patricio Manns was a Chilean singer-songwriter, composer, author, poet, novelist, essayist, journalist and writer. Manns has been a prominent representative of the so-called Nueva canción chilena. He is known for his 1965 song "Arriba en la Cordillera". In 2011, he won the folkloric competition of the LII Viña del Mar International Song Festival with the song "De Pascua Lama", performed by Valentina Sepúlveda and Diapasón Porteño.
"Arriba en la Cordillera" is a song by the Chilean singer-songwriter Patricio Manns released as single in 1965 and included in the 1966 studio album Entre Mar y Cordillera. It reached #1 on the Chilean charts and was chosen as the most popular song at Huaso de Olmué Festival in 2009.
Patricio Castillo is a Chilean musician and former member of the Chilean folk music group Quilapayún. He is well known for his collaborations with the Chilean singer-songwriter, Víctor Jara.
Rafael Manríquez was a Chilean journalist, singer, guitarist, composer and producer born in Santiago.
Silvia Ofelia Urbina Pinto was a Chilean singer, folklorist and teacher. Urbina had a vast trajectory in the investigation, research and dissemination of Chilean folk music. She was one of the founders of the Cuncumén folkloric group and later creator of the children's musical folkloric group, Cuncumenitos.
Gabriela Eliana Pizarro Soto was a Chilean folklorist, a researcher, a teacher and a songwriter. She is considered one of the three leading researchers of Chilean folk, along with Violeta Parra and Margot Loyola.
Congreso is a musical band from Chile. Founded in 1969 in Quilpué, the band has been highly acclaimed with over 50 years in Latin American music.
Nueva canción chilena was a movement and genre of Chilean music incorporating strong political and social themes, taking influences from traditional or folk music of Chile. The movement was to spread throughout Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s, in what is called "Nueva canción" sparking the renewal in traditional folk music and playing a key role in political movements in the region.
Carmen Bunster was a Chilean film and theatre actress.
La Nueva Canción Chilena was the second album recorded in exile in Italy by Inti-Illimani in 1974. It is their first album known also with a progressive numeration linked with the band name, in this case Inti-Illimani 2.
Sylvia Elvira Infantas Soto was a Chilean singer, actress, and folklorist.
