


Nueva canción is widely recognized to have played a powerful role in the social upheavals in Portugal, Spain and Latin America during the 1970s and 1980s. Salvador Allende´s Unidad Popular government had enormous support among Nueva canción musicians who composed the campaign song “Poder Popular” for the presidential election of 1970 and recorded “El pueblo unido jamás será vencido” in June 1973. She was part of the “ Nueva canción” (Spanish for ‘new song’) movement – a movement and genre within Latin American and Iberian music of folk music, folk-inspired music and socially committed music. Isabel Parra is a famous Chilean singer-songwriter and interpreter of Latin American musical folklore.
