Greatest Chilean ever!!

To decide about somebody who could be the greatest Chilean of all time is very difficult, especially because there are some many anonymous Chileans that have done a lot of important and significant deeds and besides that, is because of this people that we have an idea about what is to be Chilean, I mean, they represent the “Chilean identity”. Some examples of this anonymous Chileans are: the original people from Chile, rural people who work the land and that have created the image of “huaso”, people from the working class, especially miners or fishers, and more; everything that comes to your mind when you think about Chilean people. 

For all this things I think the greatest Chilean of all time is Violeta Parra. I think she’s the greatest because somehow she represents the Chilean identity, expressed in arts. She was a poet, musician, singer, painter; she made sacking, and a lot of other things. And in every one of her creations she expressed all this anonymous Chileans deeds and ways of lives. When you hear Violeta Parra’s songs, you realize how she integrate sounds from aboriginal people and how in her lyrics she is talking about Chileans, and also she is denouncing injustices and expressing her politic compromise for make a better society, because she was a very compromised and politic person. I think somehow she’s talking for those who have not voice, and she was listened not just in our country (maybe too late); she was also internationally recognized: She exposed her sacking at the Louvre!! 

Other thing that I admire from Violeta Parra is the fact that she was a self-learning artist. She didn’t study at university all the things she knew, so maybe that’s why her art is so human and warm. And because of it I think we could say that she was a visionary and an avant-garde person, and the greatest Chilean ever!!