Violeta Parra has been played on NTS over 60 times, featured on 23 episodes and was first played on 29 June 2017.

Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval (4 October 1917 – 5 February 1967) was a Chilean composer, folklorist, ethnomusicologist, and visual artist. She pioneered the Nueva Canción Chilena (Chilean' New Song), a renewal and a reinvention of Chilean folk music which would extend its sphere of influence outside Chile. In 2011 Andrés Wood directed a biopic about her, titled Violeta Went to Heaven.

Parra was born in San Fabián de Alico, near San Carlos, Ñuble Province, a small town in southern Chile on 4…