" Gracias the la life ", the song of the century.

A representative group of musicians, studious, poets etc, summoned by the City hall of Santiago from Chile, he/she chose the song " Gracias the la life ", of Violeta Parra with the best song of the century in Spanish language, a more than deserved indication.

Without courage of stimulating competitive comparisons, the choice actually Violeta Parra and to all the ones that helped to build the gigantic patrimony of the popular song in América Latina, a lot of times with the risk of the own life as exhibition the Chilean revolutionary singer's Victor Jara tragic destiny, as well as of the Venezuelan There Primera, whose circumstance of the death still stays not very illuminated and it happened in the moment in that it deepened its vinculação with the processes revolutionary latinoamericanos, for the what was constantly threatened by the direct.

Violeta Parra can be considered the mother of the song committed with the fight of the oppressed and explored, having been author of pages inapagáveis, as the song " Volver the los 17 ", that deserved an anthological recording Milton Nascimento and Mercedes Sosa here in Brazil. Another of its songs, " La Carta ", tune in moments of enormous revolutionary commotion, in the barricades, in the occupations he/she has among its verses that he/she says " The starving ones they ask bread, lead gives them the police ". But its songs are not just marked for devastating verses against the whole capitalist injustice. The lyricism of the verses of songs as " Gracias the la life " baled the courage of generations of revolutionary latinoamericanos in moments in that the life was questioned in its more basic limits, as well as the moving letter of " angelito " Rin, when it describes the a poor baby's death: " In its earth cradle a bell will bale you, while the rain will clean you the face in the morning ".

Woman of unbreakable communist ideário, Violeta Parra begins in the song and in the guitar to the nine years and the twelve composes its first songs. Diploma him as teacher, in a time in that it already composes boleros and songs of Chilean popular characteristics, at the same time in that he/she works in circuses, bars, party living rooms and in small neighborhood rooms. It travels rural zones recording and recompiling Chilean folkloric music starting from what elaborates a cultural synthesis of the country to the moment hidden by the vision elitista disseminated by the bourgeoisie and it joins a true fight against América Latin's stereotyped visions, becoming recuperadora and creator of the authentic popular culture. Besides composer, singer and poet, he/she is recognized plastic artist, with works in painting and ceramic exposed internationally, besides its indefatigable activity polemist and politics.

In honor to Violeta Parra, Socialist " " Revolution it publishes this beautiful article of J Posadas that it dives in the historical origins of the song popular latinoamericana and the letter of " Gracias the la life ", at the same time that makes a called the whole ones the left forces the one that they cultivate to the humanity's cultural patrimony, disclose the music, the poetry, the literature of popular and revolutionary characteristics, building the conscience about the need of a new communication model, acting as very public and not enslaved by the market laws that force the media to act as instrument of embrutecedora audiovisual occupation and I don't eat tool to elevate the cultural and informative pattern of the people.