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"Gracias a la vida" (Spanish: "Thanks to Life") is a song written, composed and performed by Chilean folk singer-songwriter Violeta Parra, one of the artists who was part of the movement and musical genre known as the Nueva Canción Chilena. Parra composed "Gracias a la vida" in La Paz, Bolivia in 1966. [3]
Gracias a la Vida (subtitled Joan Baez canta en español), or Here's to Life: Joan Baez sings in Spanish is the fifteenth studio album (and seventeenth overall) by American singer-songwriter Joan Baez, released in 1974. It was performed mainly in Spanish, with one song in Catalan.
Gracias a la vida" was written and recorded in 1964–65, [19] following Parra's separation from her long-term partner. It was released in Las Últimas Composiciones (1966), the last album Parra published before taking her life in 1967.
Cuban cultural organization Casa de las Américas hosted many notable gatherings of nueva canción musicians, including the 1967 Encuentro de la Canción Protesta. [3] Songs of conflict in Spanish have a very long history, with elements to be found in the "fronterizos", songs concerning the Reconquest of Spain from the Moors in the 15th century.
Las últimas composiciones (Spanish for The Last Compositions) is an album by Violeta Parra released on RCA Victor (CML-2456) in November 1966. It was Parra's final album, and she later committed suicide in February 1967. [1]
Banned from the musical repertoire during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, along with Gracias a la Vida, the lyrics of Volver a los Diecisiete have a poetic character and vindication for "the value of feeling above reason" with a rhetoric that seeks to describe "the purifying, ardent effects of achieved love."
Chilean singer Beto Cuevas, former leader of pop/rock band La Ley, recruited artists such Mexican Fher, vocalist of Maná, Spanish Miguel Bosé and Colombian Juanes, to record a new version of the song "Gracias a la Vida", originally performed by legendary Chilean folklorist Violeta Parra.
Haydée Mercedes "La Negra" Sosa (Latin American Spanish: [meɾˈseðes ˈsosa]; 9 July 1935 [1] – 4 October 2009) was an Argentine singer who was popular throughout Latin America and many countries outside the region.