Rodolfo Parada Lillo is a Chilean musician, composer, engineer and anthropologist. Parada joined

Quilapayún Quilapayún () are a folk music group from Chile and among the longest lasting and most influential ambassadors of the ''Nueva canción, Nueva Canción Chilena'' movement and genre. Formed during the mid-1960s, the group became inseparable with t ...

in 1968, which made the group into a

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- the formation which recorded the “ Cantata Santa María de Iquique. Upon joining the group he became the major solo voice of the ensemble (e.g. in ''“Dicen que la patria es…”, “Por que los pobres no tienen”, “Plegaria a un labrador”, “Vamos mujer”''. A fan of the “chanson française” he decided to reduce his activity as a student leader while the group was at its popularity peak during the

Salvador Allende Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens (26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean socialist politician who served as the 28th president of Chile from 1970 until Death of Salvador Allende, his death in 1973 Chilean coup d'état, 1973. As a ...

Government. He first composed ''“Ausencia”'' for the group in their “Quilapayún 5” album with assistance from Eduardo Carrasco. Whilst in exile he composed the instrumental music pieces: ''“Susurro”'' and ''"El paso del ñandu"'', plus he also composed music for

Pablo Neruda Pablo Neruda ( ; ; born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto; 12 July 190423 September 1973) was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old an ...

's poem ''"El arbol de los libres"'' and for Rafael Alberti's ''"La primavera"''. After exile his voice register underwent a change and he assumed a lower vocal range e.g. ''“Ronda del ausente”, “Luz negra”; “Complainte de

”'' - inter alia. After Eduardo Carrasco left the band in 1989 and became the group director and principal composer. During this period he earned a doctorate in anthropology from the Sorbonne in Paris, and when the activity of the band decreased he worked in the

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. Parada was awarded the

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(order of arts and letters) which is a national order of merit the French Republic grants individuals recognized for their outstanding contribution to the development of culture.

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