Naked Truth: Ángel Parra and "Desnuda"

Today's song, Desnuda, is by Chilean singer-songwriter Ángel Parra. The son of Violeta Parra, who pioneered the Nueva canción chilena genre and the brother of Isabel Parra, who is a singer-songwriter and interpreter of musical folklore, Ángel Parra has an extensive and famous musical pedigree. He made it his mission to travel abroad and keep the Nueva canción chilena, which helped fuel the upheavals against dictatorship in Spain, Portugal and Latin America, prominent among Chilean expatriates in Europe, North America and Australia. Unfortunately, Parra died of lung cancer in Paris in March, 2017 at the age of 73. You can find Desnuda on his 2012 album Ángel Parra Chante Pablo Neruda: Solo el Amor, an album that puts the poetry of Pablo Neruda into song. The song and the poem celebrate a nude lover.

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Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81ngel_Parra; https://www.euroresidentes.com/Poemas/desnuda.htm