"Volver a los Diecisiete" | |
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Song by Violeta Parra | |
from the album Las últimas composiciones | |
Language | Spanish |
English title | Back to seventeen |
Written | 1962 |
Published | 1966 |
Released | 1966 |
Recorded | 1962 |
Genre | Nueva Cancion Chilena |
Length | 4:18 |
Label | RCA Victor |
"Volver a los Diecisiete" is a song written and performed by Violeta Parra. It was composed in 1962 but was not released until 1966 on her final album, Las últimas composiciones. [1] [2]
The song was reissued on multiple compilation albums, including The Songs of Violeta Parra (1997) [3] and Antologia (2003). [4] Banned from the musical repertoire during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, along with Gracias a la Vida, the lyrics of Volver a los Diecisiete have a poetic character and vindication for "the value of feeling above reason" with a rhetoric that seeks to describe "the purifying, ardent effects of achieved love."
The song has become a standard in the Latin American songbook and has been recorded and performed by numerous artists, including Mercedes Sosa, [5] Milton Nascimento, [6] Joan Manuel Serrat, Franco Simone, Víctor Manuel, Rosa León, [7] Paloma San Basilio, Charly García, Caetano Veloso, Myriam Hernández, Chico Buarque, Zélia Duncan, Gal Costa, Marilia Andrés with Nacho Vegas, [8] Zizi Possi, [9] Claudia Acuña, [10] Angel Parra, [11] Nydia Caro, [12] Rumillajta, [13] Elise Witt, [14] and Rozalén. [15]