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Violeta Parra Museum
Violeta is the form of the female given name Violet in use in several languages. It can mean: People * Violeta (given name), female given name Movies * Violeta Went to Heaven (Spanish: ''Violeta se fue a los cielos''), a 2011 Chilean film Music * Azul Violeta, a Mexican Latin rock band * Ornatos Violeta, a Portuguese alternative rock group * ''Violeta Violeta'', a series of studio albums by Norwegian alternative rock group Kaizers Orchestra * "Violeta", a song by Iz*One, 2019 * "Violeta", a song by Puerto Rican singer Chayanne from his 1987 album '' Chayanne'' Places * Violeta, Cuba (officially Primero de Enero), a Cuban town of Ciego de Ávila Province Books * ''Violeta'' (novel), a 2022 novel by Isabel Allende See also * Violet (colour) * Violetta (other) * Violette (other) * Violet (other) * Viola (other) The viola is a stringed musical instrument related to the violin. Viola also may refer to: Guitars ''Viola'' is a term for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violet (given Name)
Violet is a female given name which comes from the eponymous flower. As with other such names, its popularity has varied dramatically over time. Flower names were commonly used from about 1880 through about 1910 in the United States, with usage dropping throughout the next 80 years or so; ''Violet'' was the 88th most frequent girls' given name in 1900, dropping below position 1000 by 1960. In 1990, the name appeared again in the top 1000 at position 289 and subsequently increased in popularity; it was the 69th most popular girls' name in 2013. The cognates in other languages are ''Viola'', ''Violeta, Violetta'', or ''Violette''. These are common girls' given names, whose popularity varies by time and country. Name variants *Violet – English * Violette – French, English * Violetta – Italian, Belgian, Dutch *Viola – Latin, English, Italian, German, Swedish * Violeta – Spanish, Greek, Portuguese, Romanian, Lithuanian, Albanian *Виолета / Violeta – Serbian *В ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violeta (given Name)
Violeta (, ''Violeta'', el, Βιολέτα, Violéta) is a female given name. Notable people with the name include: * Violeta Andrei (born 1941), Romanian actress * Violeta Ayala (born 1978), Bolivian film director, producer and writer * Violeta Chamorro (born 1929), Nicaraguan political leader, former president and publisher * Violeta Dinescu (born 1953), Romanian composer, pianist and professor * Violeta Isfel (born Ana Fanni Portolatin, 1985), Mexican actress and singer * Violeta G. Ivanova, Bulgarian astronomer * Sati (Lithuanian singer) (Violeta Jurkonienė) (born 1976), Lithuanian singer * Violeta Laužonytė (born 1955), Lithuanian textile artist * Violeta Luna (born 1943), Ecuadorian poet, novelist, essayist, professor and literary critic * Violeta Manushi (1926–2007), Albanian actress * Violeta Maslarova (1925–2006), Bulgarian artist * Violeta Menjívar (born 1952), Salvadoran politician * Viki Miljković (Violeta "Viki" Miljković) (born 1974), Serbian singer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violeta Went To Heaven
''Violeta Went to Heaven'' ( es, Violeta se fue a los cielos) is a 2011 Chilean biopic about singer and folklorist Violeta Parra, directed by Andrés Wood. The film is based on a biography by Ángel Parra, Violeta's son with Luis Cereceda Arenas. He collaborated on the film. The film was selected as the Chilean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. It was awarded the World Cinema Jury Prize (Dramatic) at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Plot The film depicts Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval's road to becoming considered one of Chile's greatest folklorists and artists. It chronicles her guitar playing at a very young age, the ambience of her musician father's haunts, and the rural settings of southern Chile in the Ñuble Province. The film follows Parra in her project of studying Chilean folk music in order to preserve and carry forward in an original way traditional composition styles to form the genr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azul Violeta
Azul Violeta is a Mexican band that was formed in 1988 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, by Hugo Rodríguez and César "Vampiro" López. Mixing funk and soul, these Latin rockers were signed by EMI in 1994 with the following line up: Hugo Rodríguez, Alex Pèrez, Yuri González, Iván González and César López "El Vampiro". They had an American release, produced in England by Richard Blair. That record, ''América'', was promoted with a Latin America and U.S. tour. In 1996, Azul Violeta built an improvised recording studio inside an abandoned Jalisco theatre to make the next album. The result was ''Globoscopio'', which was presented live all over Mexico. In May 1998, César López decided to leave the band to join Jaguares. The remaining Azul Violeta members released ''Mini Multi'', recorded in New York and produced by the band and by . After a 2-year struggle against EMI Music México, the band got free of its contract in 2000, joining the Indie scene in Guadalajara. By 2002 I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ornatos Violeta
Ornatos Violeta are a Portuguese rock band from Porto. The band, often referred to simply as Ornatos, consists of vocalist Manel Cruz, bassist Nuno Prata, guitarist Peixe and drummer Kinörm, with Elísio Donas at the keyboard. Their main period of activity was between 1991 and 2002. Since then, the band as reunited twice: in 2012 and in 2018. Ornatos Violeta, whose music is influenced by funk, jazz and ska, grew over the years to become a reference of Portuguese music of the late 1990s. The band has released two albums: ''Cão!'' in 1997 and ''O Monstro Precisa de Amigos'' in 1999, both highly-acclaimed by the Portuguese press. They were at the peak of their career when they split in 2002. History In 1997, Ornatos Violeta released their first album ''Cão!'' (''Dog!''), which included the song "Letra S"'','' a duet with Manuela Azevedo, vocalist of Portuguese band Clã. In the following year, during the Expo 98, they collaborated on the compilation ''Tejo Beat'' alongside Boss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violeta Violeta
''Violeta Violeta'' is a series of studio albums by Norwegian alternative rock group Kaizers Orchestra, comprising their sixth, seventh, and eighth studio albums. The album trilogy was released throughout 2011 and 2012. ''Vol. I'' was released on 31 January 2011, going straight to #1 in VG-lista, the official Norwegian Albums Chart in its first week of release. ''Vol. II'' was released on 11 November 2011, and ''Vol. III'' on 2 November 2012. Background In 2007, Kaizers Orchestra's co-founder and primary songwriter Janove Ottesen hit a major creative boon, and composed two to three songs every day for ten days. Using this extensive backlog of material as a basis, Ottesen conceptualized a trilogy of albums based around the same theme. Retreating to the studio in the basement of his home with an oil barrel, Ottesen recorded a "bare-bones" demo of songs intended for the trilogy. Basic information was provided regarding Kaizers Orchestra next studio album in 2009, citing a 2011 releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violeta (Iz*One Song)
"Violeta" () is a song recorded by South Korean–Japanese girl group Iz*One, released on April 1, 2019 by Off the Record Entertainment as the lead single from their second extended play (EP) ''Heart*Iz''. Composition "Violeta" is a pop track with tropical house beats and a future bass intro, inspired by the story "The Happy Prince" lyrically. It is described by Jeff Benjamin of ''Billboard'' as having "a color and floral theme as the ladies try to conjure and coax a lover into opening up to them like a flower on the verge of blooming". It offers a more uptempo and choreography-focused than the previous Korean song "La Vie en Rose". Jack Wannan of ''LWOS Life'' praised the song as " namazing production". Commercial performance In South Korea the song peaked at number 18. On the K-Pop Hot 100 the song peaked at number five making it the group's highest charting song on the chart. On the US World chart the song peaked at number 8 becoming their second top 10 hit. Despite being a Ko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iz*One
Iz*One ( ; ko, 아이즈원, Aijeuwon; ja, アイズワン, Aizuwan; stylized as IZ*ONE) was a South Korean–Japanese girl group formed through the Mnet reality competition show ''Produce 48''. The group was composed of twelve members: Jang Won-young, Sakura Miyawaki, Jo Yu-ri, Choi Ye-na, An Yu-jin, Nako Yabuki, Kwon Eun-bi, Kang Hye-won, Hitomi Honda, Kim Chae-won, Kim Min-ju and Lee Chae-yeon. The group was co-managed by Off the Record and Swing Entertainment. Iz*One made their official debut on October 29, 2018, with their first extended play (EP) ''Color*Iz''. Upon its release, the group received immediate commercial success, selling over 225,000 units and peaking at number 2 on South Korea's Gaon Album Chart. In addition, both the EP and its lead single "La Vie en Rose" charted on ''Billboard'' World Albums and World Digital Songs respectively. The early success subsequently hailed them as the New Artist of the Year at several awards ceremonies, including Golden Disc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chayanne (1987 Album)
''Chayanne'' is the third album from Puerto Rican artist Chayanne, released on Sony on 1987, and his first album under that label. Album history ''Chayanne'' is the first album by the singer released by CBS Columbia (now Sony Music Entretaiment) and was produced by Ronnie Foster. "Fiesta En America" and "Peligro de Amor" peaked at number four on the ''Billboard'' Hot Latin Tracks chart. "Fiesta En America" ranked 49th in the 2008 recap for the '100 Greatest Songs of the 80's in Spanish' by VH1 Latin America. In 1988, the album was released in Portuguese for Brazil which included "Não Posso Mais Viver Assim", a Portuguese cover of the Italian song "L'Amore È Quando Non C'è Più", originally performed by the Italian singer Euro Cristiani in 1979. The song was never released version in Spanish. In the 1988 Spanish version re-release, the song, "Una Luna Para Dos", was removed and replaced with "Esperanza". The album was reissued on Compact Disc on December 28, 1989. Track listin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violeta, Cuba
Primero de Enero is a municipality and town in the Ciego de Ávila Province, Cuba. Originally named Violeta, ( EcuRed) its name means "1st of January" in , and is referred to the final day (in 1959) of . Geography Located in the eastern side of its province, it borders with the municipalities of Esmeralda,[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violeta (novel)
''Violeta'' is a 2022 novel by Chilean-American author Isabel Allende. It is a fictional autobiographical account of the life of Violeta Del Valle and how she witnessed the various upheavals of the 20th century. Violeta in the book recalls all she has seen and experienced in an unnamed South American country spanning 100 years. Plot Violeta tells the story of the author Violeta Del Valle. Violeta was born in 1920 amid the Spanish flu epidemic in an unnamed South American country. She was the youngest daughter of her family and had five older brothers. The book depicts the scene during the 2020 pandemic, where Violeta is breathing her last as a ripe old woman of 100 years. She writes a letter to her grown up grandson telling him about her multiple difficulties. The story starts with Violeta being born in an influential family on a stormy night. Soon though her father loses everything in the Great Depression and the family had to relocate from the comforts of their mansion in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violet (colour)
Violet is the color of light at the short wavelength end of the visible spectrum, between blue and invisible ultraviolet. It is one of the seven colors that Isaac Newton labeled when dividing the spectrum of visible light in 1672. Violet light has a wavelength between approximately 380 and 435 nanometers. The color's name is derived from the violet flower. In the RGB color model used in computer and television screens, violet is produced by mixing red and blue light, with more blue than red. In the RYB color model historically used by painters, violet is created with a combination of red and blue pigments and is located between blue and purple on the color wheel. In the CMYK color model used in printing, violet is created with a combination of magenta and cyan pigments, with more magenta than cyan. Violet is closely associated with purple. In optics, violet is a spectral color (referring to the color of different single wavelengths of light), whereas purple is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
