Thanks to life that Violeta Parra gave us

Santiago de Chile commemorating the centenary of the birth of Violeta Parra, and began on February 18 with the homage of the artist's granddaughter, Tita, with the show "I'm happy Violeta", under the Womad festival.

Fifty years of life had this prolific composer, painter and CULTURAL; Born in Santiago, Chile, on October 4, 1917. In its catalog, jumps out a particular topic, "Thanks to Life" because it is a beautiful loa that thanks to the miracle of existence, the small, minimal, simple.

This piece, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w67-hlaUSIs first recorded in 1966, was popularized by notable artists and farmers, including self Violet. In seven stanzas, it is recognizing and appreciating even the most basic things, such as sight, feet that take you to travel the roads.

Especially, thanks to laughter and tears, that distinguishes the joy of destruction, "the two materials forming my song."

With his death in 1967, Violeta stopped exist physically, but his legacy endures in the song of all those who reminisce their letters and art.