Constanza "Murguera" Miranda.

At different stages of our lives we have friends who come to bring new perspectives to our way of seeing ourselves in the world. The books, the poetry, the movies and especially some songs and albums, are essential friends of life. It is difficult for me to say if I have one or some favorite discs, without forgiving some very especial album. However, today I chose to talk about an album (among so many), which I could name for different reasons among my list of favorites. Considering the centenary of Violeta Parra, I will write about the album that immortalized her greatest hits: "Las Últimas Composiciones", which predicts the future because some months later Violeta committed suicide. In this album you can see the variety and flexibility of Violeta's work, showing various motifs in her lyrics and music, and reflecting the result of her profound work as a compiler and her wonderful creative talent. Also, is important to say that to name Violeta Parra, is to name the r...

Hello classmates, what is your current musical project? I really would like to know what makes you wake up every day. Today I will write about mine: Murga Zamba y Canuta. This is a choral and theatrical group who does humorous works of social criticism. This group is conformed only by women, and makes a genre that has been developed historically only by men. It is based on the genre of the Uruguayan murga, typical of Montevideo.  Now, we are mounting our second original work, called “Hecho en Chile”.  It is about developing a work that unites the legacy of the Uruguayan murga, with the wealth of the Chilean popular arts, recovering aspects of our national identity, in order to make a criticism that leads the spectator to reflect on the good and bad things of being Chilean. I have been working for 6 years in this group, singing in the two works that we created called "El Inicio de los Tiempos" and "Hecho en Chile", and also I am part of the cultural management...