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

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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.

Channel: Music
Uploaded: October 30, 2006 at 2:09 pm
Author: Fchile

Length: 00:04:25
Rating: 4.84
Views: 425138

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Video Comments:
Livsangel (January 7, 2009 at 3:13 pm)
This song is so wonderful.
mllval (January 6, 2009 at 9:19 am)
Gracias a Violeta Parra.Por esta gran mujer que fue.Gracias por este video.
yeyeyois (December 27, 2008 at 3:23 pm)
enamorada, luchadora, loca y creyente quizo volver a quien la creo solamente...
simalta (December 27, 2008 at 9:23 am)
simplemente un arte invaluable para el folclor chileno!
locodel88 (December 24, 2008 at 9:17 pm)
amo a esta mujer :]
tengo 17 y la escucho...
necesitamos mas violetas
tanta cosas hermosas creó ella
:S
allybrokenart (December 23, 2008 at 10:40 pm)
Acepta con valentía todo lo que le toca vivir...
qué bello, qué simple
allybrokenart (December 23, 2008 at 10:37 pm)
El canto de Violeta es como un mantra, para autoconvencerse de que no era tan desdichada..

Quién no se ha sentido embriagado de tristeza y amor alguna vez? No por eso se dejan de apreciar las bellezas de la vida... muchas veces es en la tristeza cuando se aprende a sentir con intensidad, a saborear cada momento...
Como cuando Violeta dice... "perfecto distingo... el negro del blanco..."
Bastó un momento de oscuridad para que el suicidio fuera inminente....

yo te comprendo Violeta.
haydee2001 (December 23, 2008 at 8:08 am)
de verdad que es bien contradictoria la letra ya que le da gracias a la vida y despues se mata por amor mi pregunta es a tanto puede llegar un ser humano para quitarse la vida por un amor no correspondido solo dios lo sabe no creen adios desde toronto canada
ochentero35 (December 22, 2008 at 9:53 am)
GRCIAS a la vida que me ha dado y tambien nos da a nosotros los seres humanos la posibilidad de renunciar a ella cuando estimemos conveniente.
Piantera22 (December 19, 2008 at 9:58 am)
UWjajkajkajkakjakja grande violeta

invento este tema i depues se mata por amor :pxd

weno kada kien kon lo suyo no?